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Re: "I was commenting on a discussion started by @HansBrix about..."
Discord is going through the usual boom/bust cycle of all the Silicon Valley startups. Its valuation is purported to be $15 billion. Sure... At some point in the not-too-distant future, they're going to need to make money to justify that valuation. That's when good platforms decline. They've already sent up a trial balloon around NFTs and cryptocurrency in 2021. I'm willing to bet we will see an attempt to hop on the AI bandwagon soon. Probably a pivot to be more like Zoom and and market to businesses. Free will be crippled. We've seen this song and dance before and it doesn't happen with open platforms like email or IRC which continue to exist and aren't dependent on the Q3 results.
Nov 15 · 5 weeks ago
💎 pista · Nov 15 at 13:01:
Hopefully Telegram will be right behind them.
I was commenting on a discussion started by @HansBrix about the web browser. In another thread, they pointed out how the browser is just about everything these days and that's why people can live with ChromeOS. It is quite a bit absurd, and represents the regression in technology I feared in the 90s. The personal computer revolution was a revolution because it meant anyone could use a computer and didn't have to pay for mainframe time or shared access. Today's cloud is just the mainframe era...