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

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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      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.

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        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

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          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. 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

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          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

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

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      Honestly I think a lot of people were just feeling afraid of losing contact with people who belong to their communities on Reddit. I know I was guilty of the same…all misty-eyed, imagining people I’ve come to really like being around and sharing with over the years just scattered in the wind ahhh

      But I’m feeling better now. I’ve accepted that I have to delete my Reddit accounts. I’m pretty much over it. I feel committed to helping build up new communities in places like this, etc.

      But yeah discord has been good for some things over the years….but seeing what is going on there I fully expect it to go the way of everything else—to shit.

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      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.