David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)
circumstances.run
Twitter, Reddit and Discord are simultaneously going to shit - because enshittification is what happens when suddenly money isn't free any more and borrowing carries an interest rate The fediverse is not very well connected suburbs, good for what it is but doesn't do the same job bsky is gonna do its own fediverse (with beer and shitcoins) and it's fun right now as a single instance with good users, but the staff are the sort of barely-crypto-reactionary free speech warriors who will never block the nazi instances [youth pastor voice] you know, there's someone else who talked about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall . EDIT: to clarify: Discord is ticking along for now, but they hired some ex-Facebook execs, employees are in revolt and the org is hollowing out. hence (a) bad decisions (b) glitching https://archive.is/fI3hq

Twitter, Reddit and Discord are simultaneously going to shit - because enshittification is what happens when suddenly money isn’t free any more and borrowing carries an interest rate

The fediverse is not very well connected suburbs, good for what it is but doesn’t do the same job

bsky is gonna do its own fediverse (with beer and shitcoins) and it’s fun right now as a single instance with good users, but the staff are the sort of barely-crypto-reactionary free speech warriors who will never block the nazi instances

[youth pastor voice] you know, there’s someone else who talked about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall

EDIT: to clarify: Discord is ticking along for now, but they hired some ex-Facebook execs, employees are in revolt and the org is hollowing out. hence (a) bad decisions (b) glitching https://archive.is/fI3hq

  • EvilColeslaw@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Um. The only drama I’ve seen about Discord is the name change crap. Unfortunately that was a necessary change because of their own original stupidity with usernames and capitalization.

    Evilcoleslaw#1234 EvilColeslaw#1234 evilcoleslaw#1234

    Every permutation of capitalization can be a unique username under their original format, and for the low low price of Nitro you can change your discriminator at will to impersonate someone quite convincingly.

  • ram@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I know this doesn’t really fall into “tech news” or anything, but the take seemed insightful enough to be worthy of sharing imo, so forgib me pls ❤️

    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Back when I was still using it, so over 6 years ago, I had the same question and their apparently serious response was to sell merch like stickers.