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What exactly do you accuse Stack Overflow for? As far as I know this service has always been free to use and data is easily downloadable.
"Free to use" on a VC-backed service just means you're the product. I am accusing them of the same thing I'm accusing each VC-backed service: That they exploit our efforts to cash out and then sell the service for someone who will enshittify it for profit.
Also, what do you mean "easily downloadable"? Can anyone download the entire corpus of SO in a way that they could set up their own SO with the same content to bootstrap them?
have you seen: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
Can you give an example of this enshittification for profit?
reddit.com
So I agree, I thought you are talking about some profit enshittification on Stack Overflow
I'm not following SO practices, but I it will come for it as well. It's inevitable. Those who paid billions for it will require a ROI