ratskrad

@ratskrad@lemmy.world
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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.

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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 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?

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Ruud >>> Spez

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).

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.

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

I agree, I think a good compromise like school owned, locked down devices would still achieve the same thing