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Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Congratulations to Duolingo, for being the first tech company to destroy itself in the Great AI Crash. I guess nobody wants to pay $30 per month to talk to an AI chat bot in their target language.

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Congratulations to Duolingo, for being the first tech company to destroy itself in the Great AI Crash. I guess nobody wants to pay $30 per month to talk to an AI chat bot in their target language.

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Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Graph is from Yahoo finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DUOL/?guccounter=1

Reuters news article: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/duolingo-prioritizes-user-growth-over-monetization-forecasts-softer-bookings-2026-02-26/

“The language-learning app has spent recent years fine-tuning monetization through more ads and subscription prompts, helping lift bookings per user. But that coincided with slower user growth.” Yes Reuters, that’s called enshittification.

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I want to learn Chinese. I hear airlearn is good. I’ve just started on it and feels quite similar to Duolingo. Is it worth a subscription?
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  HelloChinese is better

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