David GerardJun 12, 2023

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

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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

Show threadCharlie StrossJun 12, 2023
@davidgerard I note that Google and DuckDuckGo have both gradually degraded over the past year—same pressure at work, only more slowly? (Especially as they monetize search results derived from the unpaid labour of the Twitter/Reddit/Discord communities.)
Show threadDavid Gerard
@cstross see addition from youth pastor
Jun 12, 2023 at 10:38amWeb
Show threadDavid GerardJun 12, 2023
@cstross just struck that all three are going at the same time, for the same material reason
Show threadAlisonW ♿🏳️‍🌈♾️Jun 12, 2023

@davidgerard @cstross
It's a 'do unto others as you would have them do to you' thing. Reddit et al have taken advantage of people creating content for them without payment but have only now realised that other companies are using them in the same way and they don't like it.

It will all end in tears, obviously.