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i'd give it one or two years before discord undergoes some serious enshittification, with the way most other social media websites have gone down, presumably due to them not being really profitable anymore, im sure discord will start pushing people into nitro more and more as time goes on, i mean as most other platforms discord is already taking advantage of our data, but so did twitter and look where twitter is going now lol
Mostly true although I'd caution on the use of "profit" here. Profit isn't the problem that causes this. Growth is. Almost all of these companies grow using investor money operating at a loss, radically cut costs then sell, netting their investors a packet.
It's when the growth slows that the enshittification occurs (via radically cutting costs).
The only "profit" that matters is at the point of sale for the various company owners that invested.
yea i agree, growth would be a better word to use here