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

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I tried setting up discord once for a project. I use a whitelist firewall on my workstation for a few reasons. Discord is the most sketchy nonsense I have ever encountered. At least when I tried a few years ago, discord tries to make a cascade of connections to what appears to be random raw IP addresses on weird ports. I started punching a few holes to let it through but after a half dozen raw IP addresses and it still didn’t work I said forget this nonsense. I’m probably just too dumb to understand what is going on, but I’m not willing to trust any proprietary service like that, especially when I really can’t tell how they are remotely financially viable. Maybe someone here knows why they operate like this on raw IP addresses and ports. I didn’t find any explanation on their website.