Mark Gardner<p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Meetup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meetup</span></a> has been acquired by <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/BendingSpoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BendingSpoons</span></a>, whose business model is to buy solid apps from others, then “optimize” their monetization by pushing exorbitant weekly auto-renewing subscriptions (e.g., <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Filmic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Filmic</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Focos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Focos</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Remini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Remini</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Splice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Splice</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/30DayFitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>30DayFitness</span></a>) and/or suddenly nerfing their free plans to get people to pony up for said subscriptions (<a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Evernote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evernote</span></a>).</p><p>I expect Meetup to suffer similar <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/blog/a-new-home-for-meetup/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">meetup.com/blog/a-new-home-for</span><span class="invisible">-meetup/</span></a></p>