Discord has some awful UX patterns, but somehow many communities have slid into adopting it as a general information resource. There are certain kinds of content where barriers to entry aren't that important - people go where the content they want is, and that's that. That's why Something Awful can still exist with a $10 paywall.
The Lemmy software already works well enough to have a critical mass of traction for general-audience memes/pictures/news. The rest is "well, maybe sometime down the road". No big talk about late capitalism needed.
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Discord has some awful UX patterns, but somehow many communities have slid into adopting it as a general information resource. There are certain kinds of content where barriers to entry aren't that important - people go where the content they want is, and that's that. That's why Something Awful can still exist with a $10 paywall.
The Lemmy software already works well enough to have a critical mass of traction for general-audience memes/pictures/news. The rest is "well, maybe sometime down the road". No big talk about late capitalism needed.