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

  • ZambonimanEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    I was a wee bit surprised (but not really, I guess) when just before the Reddit blackout everyone on Reddit was spamming their relevant Discord links for the relevant subreddit.

    I could only think, “That’s no better!!”

    We’ll see if that changes.

    To add to that, Discord is an entirely different kind of interaction. Fine if that’s what you want, but not fine if you want something a bit more…static.

    • @idle@158436977.xyzEnglish
      14•1 year ago

      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.

      • ZambonimanEnglish
        3•1 year ago

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

        • @idle@158436977.xyzEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          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

          • ZambonimanEnglish
            3•1 year ago

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

      • 🐝bownage [they/he]English
        3•1 year ago

        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.worldEnglish
          1•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

    • ramOPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Agreed! Discord is a stream of thought conversational platform. Even while there may be “topics”, they’re moreso just to categorize the (mostly) noise of the platform. It’s similar to twitter in that regard, but very dissimilar from other social media in that it prioritizes direct one-to-one interaction over the broad dissemination of information.

      I hope Discord gets their shit together, but as is, I’d have left already if it wasn’t for social ties.