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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 03:14:36 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   I hear people are doing a surprise-pikachu about Discord's new ad push?
   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/discord-heightens-ad-focus-by-introducing-video-ads-to-mobile-apps-in-june/

   Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯

   Nobody saw that coming! :blobcat0_0:

   :blobcatcoffee:

   #Discord #WalledGardens

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 03:14:52 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.

     Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."

     But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.

     So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷♀️

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