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Online Commentator's take on the ongoing enshittification of the internet (Discord's next) (circumstances.run)

submitted 1 year ago by ram@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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

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[–] idle@158436977.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Discord is flat out garbage as a forum. Once you pass say even 15 people, it becomes a total mess of posts burying other posts, you can never find anything. I have no idea why everyone wants to use it for something it was never meant to be.

[–] bownage@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad someone else is saying it too because my lord I cannot for the life of me understand why people are so persistent on promoting discord as a social media platform

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seems like a kids thing really. I agree it is stupid and going form one corporate owned entity to another is no better. I think FOSS community run solutions while rough around the edges will have the last laugh if they can sustain the current numbers and grow organically.

I'd also like to see more youtubers etc promote the fediverse and explain how it works as there seems to be a lot of confusion out there.

Ultimately its exciting and healthy for the Internet and society as a whole

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Relevant old thread on hackernews

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, I agree wholeheartedly! It's just not my thing.

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use it for gaming with friend groups, but would gladly get off it if my friends would too. Sadly that is a near impossibility. lol

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, for certain kinds of live conversations while involved in a group activity, it works fine. But only for that, in my opinion.

[–] EpsilonNot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. It's a replacement for something like whatsapp, not a forum.