Or as Cory Doctorow calls it - “Enshittification”. They’re now in the second stage - open the gates for other companies to market to Discord users:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, holding each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
I’m confused, this changes nothing for most users. All this does is allow creators that use Patreon tiers to grant certain roles in Discord to do this entirely through Discord. If you’re not in one of these servers, this probably won’t affect you.
I don’t subscribe to any creator, but I often hear them talk about “this tier gives you X on Discord” and I wondered if it’s all manual. Some are people with hundreds of subscribers who want to make use of those perks, it would be a nightmare to manage manually.
Then we’ll all run for Matrix in a few years once Discord goes full anti-consumer. As if none of us have ever been through a situation like this. Nope, never.
…Says the guy who’s like in 50 Discord servers…Including one for friends and another for family.
This is the classic tactic of make a product free and run it at a loss until you have full market share then you can extort users for whatever.
Or as Cory Doctorow calls it - “Enshittification”. They’re now in the second stage - open the gates for other companies to market to Discord users:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
I’m confused, this changes nothing for most users. All this does is allow creators that use Patreon tiers to grant certain roles in Discord to do this entirely through Discord. If you’re not in one of these servers, this probably won’t affect you.
Even if you are, it’s still barely a change
Oooh, this should automate that stuff, right?
I don’t subscribe to any creator, but I often hear them talk about “this tier gives you X on Discord” and I wondered if it’s all manual. Some are people with hundreds of subscribers who want to make use of those perks, it would be a nightmare to manage manually.
No, it’s automated via Patreon as well.
Oh, thank you!
Then we’ll all run for Matrix in a few years once Discord goes full anti-consumer. As if none of us have ever been through a situation like this. Nope, never.
…Says the guy who’s like in 50 Discord servers…Including one for friends and another for family.
And who also pays for Nitro… =/
Yep, we’ve seen that before