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Comment by squigz | Hacker News Reader

Not to be too harsh, but if you think that Facebook comes the closest to the community-forming platforms you're talking about, I think you're not very familiar with how young people actually use the Internet.

May I introduce you to Discord, or any MMO?

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While you're right, the original posts point about "internet today is transactional" applied to all and every MMO, and as for discord, it's currently already in the process of "enshittification that follows after sufficient scale have been reached"

Discord is in the process of "needing to host millions of users that expect the service to remain free forever and will complain about any attempt at making money like harmless profile cosmetics"

No arguments about MMOs, really, except that I haven't paid a cent to an MMO in 15 years and I run a community in one of them.

Discord is definitely under profit pressure and it’s starting to show. Their app spies what programs you’re running and you can’t turn it off, you can only stop announcing what you’re doing to your friends but it’s on by default. It’s a privacy nightmare. “You’re missing out on our overlay” nags appear with you start playing a game, etc. Nags to visit their shop. Is the start of a trend. Of course people here on HN will defend these practices. “Just use the web app”, “they’re harmless cosmetics” etc.

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