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Oh yeah, we’re about to see things get really shitty on Discord.

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Already have embedded ads. I’m about done with this shit and willing to have no one to talk to just so I don’t give discord the satisfaction of using their Spyware.

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“All right, everybody. I know there’s been a sexism problem here at Discord, and I’m here to change that. If we really work hard and power through, I truly believe that we can work our way up to the kinds of numbers I was able to achieve back at Activision Blizzard.”

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I picture him saying this while he hangs a picture up of Bill Cosby in the board room. Yes, that was a thing at Activision/Blizzard. Time to start finding a new platform. Peak enshitification achieved.

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So the end of discord is nigh

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Discord is never going to be profitable lmao

It can be a loss leader for microsoft, but at the end of the day, discord will always lose money. The operational cost of discord is way too high

This change just means more enshittification like with every ceo change.

Honestly they should just go full on points shops for spending money on xbox, like steam. Give out points to use for customization. That way they could at least make some incentive to use xbox and probably boost sales.

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But why? People just want to talk and chat. The technology has been around for ages! Let users host their own servers

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Does Microsoft own Discord?

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You just made me look it up and apparently they canceled it when I heard about it

So nvm discord is doomed LOL They’re purely running on vc money and sooner or later this company will explode

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Enshitification applies to EVERYTHING

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Linux hasn’t enshittified. Neither has the fediverse. Enshittification applies to everything corporate and for-profit.

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Linus dies

welp! pack it up! How’s BSD this time of year?

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Originally it was a good descriptor of tech companies starting out as useful and then turning to shit as they leaned into becoming profitable, but if you was to use it as “things get shitty in favor of profits” then I guess it could apply to everything.

I liked the original where it had nuance and was a good shorthand specific to the tech trends.

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Words can entshitify? Ahhhh. Everything given enough time will gravitate to its natural state of sucking ass. It’s the you didn’t die when you were the hero scenario all the way down.

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As long as we are using enshittification for anything going downhill my word example is lose getting an extra ‘o’ which makes reading ‘I hate it when I loose my keys’ painful. Why the hell is that so common now?

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I mean, thats what happened to “literally” hundreds of years ago…

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