Timeline blowing up today with the news of #Canva puchasing #Affinity. Posts are pouring in, written in SO many languages. ALL of them worrying about yet another good software suite falling victim to #enshittification and a license model moving from perpetual to monthly subscription.
Users universally loathe subs and we have all seen this story play out before. Nobody trusting the "no changes planned at this time" message.
A sad state of affairs when we all now EXPECT to be worse off shortly.
@airwhale
I'd say that eventually people will learn to go straight to the #foss option of any given service, but that hasn't hurt #twitter after two years. 🙄
we all know Canva is trash so it's upsetting if we've bought Affinity-- I have alllll the licenses and now I don't know if I'll be supported going forward
I am less worried about forward support (guessing they paid good money for Affinity), but the move to subscription isn't far off, probably. Ill-concieved AI "features" may also be in our future, but by all means, change my mind...
Never even tried Canva myself, it always seemed very much like just picking pre-created templates to me.
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