I wonder though why they've been making losses for years - probably because of all the acquisitions? Looks like they were just another "grow now, revenue later" company that is now too big to be able to afford itself

... to the franchisees 🙄 To everyone else though, we'll get a livable wage.

And let's be honest, this devastating financial blow they speak of probably just means 1 less yacht for them.

But why do they want to charge based on usage? Their users are already subscribed. It's not like they run cloud services or anything. There is literally no cost to them except for the self imposed analytics stuff.

I don't fully understand why they need to do this. What is the cost of their service? Using the tool is already a subscription service, what else do they want? It's not like they have cloud services. They just want free money I guess?

I really cannot wait until millenials and GenZ grow older take over the world. The youth of today are just so much smarter than us, and I feel like they are more exposed to internet media that they aren't easily influenced. I just hope there is enough of the world left for them after we are done with it.

A calligraphy test is not irrelevant if you are studying to LEARN calligraphy. If you are arguing that calligraphy as a subject doesnt need to exist then fine then don't study it. But you don't learn it by asking AI to do it for you.

Ruud >>> Spez

Lol I just remembered Elon's tweet that led to him firing an Android dev. Who's doing poorly batched remote procedure calls again? 😂

Lemmy has been great hasn't it? It's not as big but the content feels more meaningful.

Boost was my go-to and I'm waiting for the new one for Lemmy. But jerboa has been doing the job for me so far. Especially the newer versionsB

It's so great to see. Just proves what everyone was saying all along. Communities are built by the people that participate in them, and not the tools. Get rid of those tools and we'll find other ones.

I think the main problem with these companies and the startup/tech bro culture (mostly in the US) is that they are growing for the sake of just growth itself, because they want to get their own. The original idea is to grow as big as they can, IPO, then sell it off. They weren't designing things to be profitable from the start. So eventually they all reach a stage where they are hemorrhaging money too much, and that is where all the enshittification happens (investors come in, they try to make it a real business now, but it wasn't really feasible to be a business to begin with).

It's early stages but the conversations here feel more "high effort". I think it might also be because of signup approvals which weeds out bots/low effort posters. I do feel the growth pains with the timeouts happening more often but overall content-wise it is quite nice.