Picturing a nightmare scenario where somehow hexbear gets bought out by capitalists and looks to cash in on some of that sweet enshittification.
De-federating from lemmy would be a start. Strip the site of all the features we gained. Ads would be a must. Paid avatars is another goodie.
This is it. The meat of tech companies' employee bases is always extraneous shit that exists to try and turn a profit; the core functionality of every company I've ever worked for or heard of is almost always <100 engineers.
Yeah, like the core functionality of Twitter or Reddit isn't really any more complicated than Hexbear, it's all scale and ads and security and UX and data mining and ads and ads and ads and ads