Readit NewsIt had one @&_+ing job...
And they managed to instead product design something with 2 (3?) different chat models, limitations around every corner, an incomplete API for basic use cases (e.g. getting notified of @'s), and an embedded ability to build entire apps inside Teams.
Is this just my subjective impression or do you feel the same?
Boy does it feel great to be constantly shamed for being a white male as the source of our country's problems while not being rich enough to influence the political system like billionaire donors. Boy does it feel great that our industries and political system are completely captured, so they can shame us out of one side of their mouths while making sure their donors who are bought into the housing market (and they themselves, who are too) will never have to worry about their house of cards collapsing.
Perhaps it's the lack of spirituality that has driven people so insane that they latch on to anything that promises them virtues. Nietzsche once said "God is dead", but what did we replace it with?
In any case, it's amusing to watch it all enfold right in front of your eyes.
I sometimes find myself wanting aliens to find us and make contact, just so we can have an outside, hypothetically enlightened source (if we're going by the Star Trek fantasy) to say "You're doing WHAT?!"
Regardless of how you feel about them, Kiwifarms is what would happen to any forum that got too successful without the approval of a major player: a constant barrage of being removed from hosting providers, DDOS mitigation platforms and domain registrars.
Forums still exist because they're passion projects to very niche communities with very stubborn people. I treasure those communities but that's kind of incompatible with mainstream Internet and consumption habits.
I cannot trust any company with any modicum of success not to immediately exit into the hands of megacorps. I cannot hope that companies have any type of morality/"want to make the world better" anymore.