oh don’t worry, discord won’t shut down. it will just gradually enshittify more and more as it keeps trying to make more money as the vc funds dry up, eventually being bought by a large corporation looking to sell the user data for a nice profit.
then once it gets bad enough, another centralized, proprietary platform will pop up that promises to be slightly better than discord (at least, better than discord after its gradual decline), people will move to it in droves, and the cycle will start all over again
discord will continue to stick around for a couple more years after that, until the company that bought it decides it’s not worth running anymore and unceremoniously shuts it down, destroying over a decade worth of people’s memories in the process
It looks like google is manipulating the entered search queries to make them more profitable for google.
"Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all. It’s not possible for you to opt out of the substitution."
From https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/
“my son turned out fine”
your child is caught in the loop of being a girl, a celestial entity or a cat and can’t function in the society you forced them to live in
The next release of Phosphor icons will have a Fediverse and Mastodon
icon, and possibly more! https://github.com/phosphor-icons/homepage/issues/216#issuecomment-1742386769
should i watch serial experiments lain