enshitification continues
Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI
Submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/101455-duolingo-lays-off-10-contract-workers-company-puts.html
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Olap@lemmy.world 10 months ago
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Q: Why do people add “en” in front? Isn’t “shittification” just fine?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
the original author coined it
en - shit - ify: [commence] + [ordure] + [make]
I guess because it’s the start of a long and slow process, that holds the context of it not being as shit before. Whereas without the prefix it suggests a more sudden, decisive and completed act.
Olap@lemmy.world 10 months ago
dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/en & en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ification#English both combine to make a word that means to add to something making it shitter
Shittification would be to make a shit, you could argue that ‘en’ means that you make something else shitter I think
English is weird en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
nemam__ime@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
It really went to shit when they removed the forum which was one of the most useful parts of the whole app
Fisk400@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Whoever owns all these companies that are so keen on replacing everything with AI better invest in defense robots because people are going to have a lot of time on their hand and very little money.
sab@kbin.social 10 months ago
A lot of people don't have much food on their table
But they got a lot of forks n' knives
And they gotta cut somethin'- Dylan
theedqueen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If anyone has a good app to learn Korean I’d love a rec. at best duo just helps me with vocab.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Honestly I prefer Babbel over Duolingo. It requires a sub though
quirzle@kbin.social 10 months ago
Grabbed a year on the Black Friday sale and, holy shit, it's so much better. Actual explanations and lessons is way better than the pointless gamification/leaderboards.
theedqueen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It doesn’t look like they offer Korean. Shame.
alienanimals@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to greedy executives.
casmael@startrek.website 10 months ago
Any recommendations for language learning that doesn’t involve Duolingo?
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 10 months ago
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Lingodeer is pretty great. It has a similar free/premium model to Duo, but unlike Duo there is an option to buy premium perpetually rather than as a subscription (and it goes on sale sometimes!)
AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Assimil courses, fsi courses, language transfer, Clozemaster (app), Pimsleur.
Lightrider@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
#fuckingcapitalists
TheBat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ficken die eule
shundi82@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Setzen, 6.
echo64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The quality of duolingo has gone down massively in the past few years as they have done lay-offs, they don’t even have anyone checking the feedback coming from users any-more.
the courses themselves are worse too, designed more to stretch out app usage rather than teach more. I used to recommend duolingo as a good starter on learning a language, but it’s just so bad now that I won’t. And it seems to be a direct result of layoffs.
solivine@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Yeah now it repeats the same vocab over and over a bit too long and it’s hard to get much use out of it
madis@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Well, you always had the option to skip a level.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It has become very apparent, even in popular languages. Going to give y’all three examples here:
You are way better off using apps like Busuu. You get speaking practice, feedback from the system and other people, and it goes into an okay amount of detail for grammar and vocabulary, for the upcoming exercises. It’s not perfect, but it’s better. For Japanese specifically, just avoid these to begin with. It’s not a good time. Download yourself Renshuu for writing practice, and a copy of Genki for everything else
AmieFromEarth@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is there any better app you can recommend? I started with babbel in the beginning but after finishing the basic courses it got so dry and boring to use, that i swapped to Duo. Also because a few friends use it.
gramie@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I strongly recommend [Language Transfer ](language transfer.org). The best language course I have ever done, and I have done many (I speak five languages, at varying levels of fluency).
They have an app, that is simple, streamlined, and very functional.
The app also has also an Introduction to Music Theory course which people say is very, very good.
BoneALisa@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’ve been using LingoDeer for the past few days since hearing this news, and so far it’s not too bad. The social features are severely lacking compared to Duolingo (my friend group goes hard on the friends quests lol) but they have a lot more grammar explanation and whatnot available that duolingo doesn’t. Plus, LingoDeer seems much less focused on learning for tourism, and more for actual learning.
Note this is all for the Japanese course, no idea how their other courses are.
JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also interested in this
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Duolingo is a steaming pile compared to what it used to be. The nags to pay went up and the quality went down. Their new learning path completely ruined the process for me.
J12@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’ve gone to complete shit since they’ve become a publicly traded company. Trash updates, removing the forum and comments/discussions on questions.
Money is priority over education when it’s tradable on the stock market.
Fuck them, I hope someone creates an AI based language learning app and Duolingo goes out of business. lol at their $215 stock price. It’ll be 1/20 of that in 3 years.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I did the Latin course last year and was unpleasantly surprised by how low quality znd even low quantity it was. Guess I’ll try Babbel next.
aniki@lemm.ee 10 months ago
babbel is much worse
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
To be fair, it has been a long time of the decline and increased monetization.
I remember using it at a time where gems had only cosmetic use or you could freeze your streak.
I did not use it for a couple years and came back to gems being used for a whole lot more, a few free exercises and then it cost gems. Getting the final, I think gold, level of ewch exercise cost like 100 gems a try, no mistakes allowed.
The only reason I still kept using it was that in the early years I amassey 10000+ gems, so I was slowly using those up. Once that was over I stopped, unusable without paying and even then it does not provide more than vocabulary practise.