Why does it feel like we're at a point where every social media + other digital media are making shitty decisions and falling apart?

VoidCrow@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 931 points –

I mean there's Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I'm sure there are plenty more (and I haven't even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a couple months?

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The VC money is drying up and they're demanding a return on investment as the world's economy struggles on at the moment.

Indeed. VC is going into "AI" instead so now services have to be financially sustainable. And that is not really the problem, it's when companies intentionally do it in a way that fuck the user.

Sustainable as interpreted by a non-techie bean counter looking at maximising next quarter's profits and ignoring everything past that.

They're doing an IPO so yes, that is what sustainable means nowadays, as shitty as it is.