Centralized services bring in a ton of benefits (such as the huge corpus of information found on Reddit) but require large amounts of infrastructure and money for upkeep. And then when someone is sitting on a site like that, they will have ideas about making more money off it. It's inevitable that most large online platforms want to take advantage of their scale to make money.
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Higher interest rates means they have more pressure to start being profitable is my guess.
because investors started wanting them to make money
What are the dumb updates discord is doing? I haven't noticed anything different, except for the username change that doesn't have a gamertag anymore.
There is also that weird hidden alternate layout that is an ungodly eyesore (I think it can be accessed either in the settings or if you double click the sparkle emoji for some reason?) Admittedly I'm not as familiar with Discord's issues, mainly heard others talking about it
New layout? I've seen no hint of that and I use discord all the time
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I feel as though the user base is a large part of the problem. I might be wrong but the accessibility of social media that have apps is a lot easier for the younger population who these days are flooding social media. I don't think a lot of people use forums or currently Testflight apps such as Memmy (for Lemmy). The iPhone is the phone for influencers and if Lemmy officially releases an iPhone app the same problems may happen.
Uh somethings going on with discord? i know it's alls abouts dat ai. but other then that? oh well I did need to update my userhandle the other day. but then it was a while since I logged in.
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Because a user base has yet to demonstrate that there will be significant consequences for such actions. Maybe there will be, but they will be less-tangible long-term consequences that can’t easily be attributed to these actions.
just seeing what all the fuss is about over here. I don’t know what I’m even doing.
Hmmm if I had to put my conspiracy cap on it would have to do with the upcoming election. I haven't tested the waters enough to know how lemmy will react to me.
ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are the reasons. I’m starting to see commercials that are using highest tier video tech. Just keep pushing.
That’s one community that’s worth supporting.
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