yaodema

Eventual artist

  • she/they

https://yaodema.com/


building the Hyperion setting, writing and drawing comics for that and others' worlds -- plus making tools for others to use for their own art!


Researchying (OOPs lore and other things)


I made that transformation hazard sign
(and self-replication too)


Zelda years old (1986)


amydentata
@amydentata

Hey what's up! We did a bunch of dumb changes that are completely baffling! Again! That's our primary development strategy now :3


MorganH
@MorganH

in grad school I took an undergrad-level class on Twitch Streaming for Community and Entertainment, and the professor was an extremely credulous, uncritical enthusiast of all tech-fads -- our guests ranged from producers working at Twitch, personal assistants to full-time streamers (who were depressingly resigned to "also working to be their friends"), Jason Caruso (music-producer failson of Rick Caruso, billionaire Los Angeles mayoral candidate)1, etc.

One week we had a producer from Discord come and talk to the class, and the content of that conversation made it extremely clear to me that Discord is riding the same wave that Twitter was on: Huge userbase but no monetization plan, run by wide-eyed MBAs who are consistently ensnared by whatever the latest techno-grift is. We heard about crypto wallets, AI, Metaverse, all that shit.

Basically, Discord does not know how to become profitable, and will continue to implement unasked-for changes and features because they do not have a firm long-term plan on how to actually generate a profit. Enshitification is inevitable with Discord, and imo communities should already be trying to figure out where they will migrate too when Discord becomes unusable.


  1. This was the only class I ever walked out early on, Jason Caruso spent 25 minutes trying and failing to log into his drop box account to show us some new music and I realized that my time would be better spent writing smut out in the sun.


apogeesys
@apogeesys
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in reply to @MxSelfDestruct's post:

as someone who actually used this, its actually kinda nice. i saw someone use some emotes, and i just chucked them in my picker, without joining a server i didn't wanna join. i honestly don't mind it.

I can! It's fluff. It's just something someone could do, and much more easily than something consequential. Thus, a 'new feature' is born!

But for real, if there is a way to use this to harm others, someone is going to. I'm imagining driveby fascist icon spamming or something.

it's for people who join servers they don't intend to read or chat in, solely because they like that server's emotes and want to be able to use the emotes themselves

it's a natural product of their increasingly complicated elaborate monetization system. they want to expand emote access for nitro users to make buying nitro more appealing, but they can't just let nitro users upload whatever they want because that would make it less appealing to buy server boosts for more emote slots. so you get convoluted stuff like this

in reply to @MorganH's post:

the head of my department apparently worked with the discord founders in the past, and while he had something really nice to say about literally everyone else he worked with, all he had to say about them is “they seem to be doing well for themselves”, which was really funny

in reply to @WobblyPython's post:

I just found it on a 2-person server, so it's probably applied arbitrarily for A/B testing or whatever

Server settings -> Emoji, right under the upload button, if it exists

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