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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 100 points 1 month ago

I canceled my subscription. In part because fuck using AI to hurt labor, but also unemployment. Capitalists want us to spend spend spend, but they don't want to give us any money to spend.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Exactly that. Everyone is obsessed with eternal growth, pushing SaaS offerings our throats and even more subscriptions. There is a real estate crisis, where putting a roof over your head becomes an even more distant dream for the majority of the working population and greedy companies are firing people and replacing them with AI and then they wonder why people are revolting. Eat the rich!

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

They’re desperate to bring back slavery.

[-] malin@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 month ago

Slavery never went away, they just added extra steps.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Capitalists want us to spend spend spend, but they don’t want to give us any money to spend.

The capitalists want you to spend spend spend, but they're a dying breed. The neofeudalists -- the group that really runs stuff at this point -- don't really care what you do because they're too busy extracting the wealth of the capitalists.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 17 points 1 month ago

I guess it's like the difference between a parasite that doesn't kill the host, and one that does. The current breed looks like it's going to kill the host.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

💯

When you have so much capital, the only place to get any meaningful amount more from is the capitalists underneath you whose business you haven't turned into a dried out husk yet.

[-] malin@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 month ago

You shouldn't have subscribed in the first place.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago

Just uninstall and stop engaging with Duolingo marketing.

Sometimes, the best way to make noise is to disappear first.

Great advice! I'll do just that. Uninstalled.

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 month ago

just marketing I assume. duo has always been a weird marketer

[-] Owlboi@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

considering they said theyre gonna replace all their employees with ai, i wouldnt be surprised if this is the marketing departments' last backlash.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

It doesn't matter if its good news, bad news, strange news, weird news ... its news and they're all talking about you

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

“Let’s just say we’re experimenting with silence,” a spokesperson for Duolingo told Fast Company over email. “Sometimes, the best way to make noise is to disappear first.”

[-] WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago
[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 28 points 1 month ago

Save us a click - cliffnotes?

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago

Strange message,

Let’s just say we’re experimenting with silence,” a spokesperson for Duolingo told Fast Company over email. “Sometimes, the best way to make noise is to disappear first."

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago

This from a company that‘s supposed to teach you languages… I am laughing out loud.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 9 points 1 month ago

That's actually funny.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

A weird, kinda relevant but actually not tik tok video. Duolingo’s policies haven’t changed, so I don’t care what they post.

[-] natecox@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago

Yeah I’m dropping my super subscription and my usage of the app. Fuck AI, and fuck the companies using it to deepen the enshitification of tech.

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

The TikTok post has been up for days by now. If this was truly a disgruntled employee posting against the company, it would have been taken down by down despite the passwords being changed. This is a corpo post.

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

That reminds me, I should start practicing German on Babbel (not sponsored, but open to sponsorships :P ) https://www.babbel.com/mobile

[-] malin@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago
[-] standarduser@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Doing a quick check I see that it’s like $17 for a monthly plan. Yikes

[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't think so, no :(

[-] illi@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Going to take this opportunity to ask if anyone knows about a good alternative?

[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I've downloaded, but haven't tried it yet, but hear good things about Mango Languages Learning.

[-] weksa@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I enjoy Mango a lot more than Duolingo. I didn’t like Duolingo’s rote memorization of phrases. Mango adds structure and explanation, so you build and compose.

Also, worth mentioning that you might get free access to Mango through your public library.

[-] froggycar360@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

Pimsleur is waaaay better. Not as gamified tho.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

There are many many different people with different advice. Just do a search in any engine, eliminate the AI-slop and use what of the rest seems like you can do.

The most important factor is putting in your hours of study. You can never learn a language if you spend all your time learning how to learn a language. You will never learn a language if you good at one basic and never study anything else (which is what most programs, including doulingo will get you, so you need to try several different study methods)

[-] illi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I like to ask people for their opinions

[-] Flemmy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And so the A.I. larp begins.

Just randos larping as AI mainframe or whatever.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Even assuming we're okay with using AI for language learning - then why would anyone pay for Duolingo instead of the many LLMs that people already use and pay for?

They've alienated their customer base hard. And this marketing video pretending they are siding with the users and against "their corporate overlords" is horribly tone deaf.

[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Perhaps because their app and its gamification of learning is addictive and quite fun.

[-] ephrin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

This is it for me. All of this has me pretty down, because the gamification works really well on me and I enjoy it. But fuck AI.

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