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Future will tell. Id like to find out that you are right and fediverse will prevail without monetisation. Yet its growth seem really sluggish so far.
The world needs decent communication ecosystem, we need less manipulated societies at least for democracies to work. Fedi has a potential to be a world changing project, not just another irc-type cave of geeks.
You are right that enshitiffication does not quite fit here, as by Doctorow, it also involves reaching market dominance, which is a prerequisite to squeezing more velue and simultaneously offering less. Getting paid for your work is a far cry from market dominance :) It is just fair.
The article does not explain it well. The Orthodox church in Ukraine has officially switched allegience from Moscow to Kyiv, but many parishes did not do the switch and still report to Putin’s servant Kiril. The law will enforce the switch. The religion is the same, so if pro-russian priests choose to leave, I dont think the churches wont stay empty.
And here is a reminder of who Kiril and his cronies are: