Yo no voy a #cancelDuolingo, me comprendes? Duó es mi mejor amigo! Y no tengo obsesion con el.

A screenshot of Auburn's final daily streak counter on Duolingo. There are numerous issues to cite, including repetitive content, diminishing user interaction, use of genAI, the streak itself, and the treatment of free users. Yes, this picture is from Wednesday, July 2nd. That's how much of a mental effort it was to finally cut this off... ^.^;

I've been stuck on #Duolingo for a while now, mainly for kanji, but I've also wanted for some time to find a new and better place.

After discovering #Ringotan, #Anki, and #Renshuu, I'm ready to destroy the ~1.7K-day streak and #cancelDuolingo.

(It's slightly over 1666, but that's okay.)

A screenshot of Ringotan's home screen. The apple-like mascot looks... happy to see us? They're definitely not plotting anything. They also teach well. *u*

More than a few days in, and I can confidently confirm how I feel about #Ringotan! It's excellent for actually memorizing the kanji, even the more complex ones.

I'll still need to figure out grammar + vocab replacements to #cancelDuolingo fully.

In the meantime, I trust this face!

Ringotan - Learn Japanese Kanji | Free App Ringotan teaches you how to WRITE Japanese Kanji, not just read them. By combining advanced input detection with industry-standard SRS (spaced repetition) algorithms, Ringotan ensures you learn as ful...

I've embarrassingly still been stuck with #Duolingo for some time, but I'm finally finding replacements to #cancelDuolingo with.

I heard about #Ringotan recently, and it's working really well for Japanese kanji study already!

www.ringotan.com

Duolingo "streak milestone" graphic for 850 days in a row.

Duolingo nag screen telling user their Family Plan expired.

Duolingo diamond League tournament showing user "#cancelDuolingo_Duo_uses_AI" ranked at number 8.

I'm officially done with Duolingo, cancelled and uninstalled, and off to study with Mango languages instead.

Enormous RIP to all the hard work by the artists and translators who are getting their work ruined by an idiot CEO's push to AI slop.

#cancelDuolingo

Duolingo literally replaced helpful comments from their human users with an upsell for AI. #cancelDuolingo

A pointless tab in Duolingo advertising the AI "video call" and prompting an upgrade, as a whole interface tab.

A whole SECOND tab of Duolingo devoted to their terrible AI "video call" chatbot and prompting an upgrade, again.

The "practice" tab of Duolingo (hidden in a menu to make room for TWO separate AI advertisements) where the very first option is, again, the AI slop "feature."

Duolingo's home tab, showing two forced AI video calls (which can't be done without an additional paid upgrade) along the main progression path.

Guessing nobody whatsoever is using Duolingo's stupid AI "video call" feature because they've now put it in FOUR PLACES, bumping "profile," "feed," and "practice" tabs to a submenu.

Disgusting lmao #cancelDuolingo

Well he certainly doesn't have a business brain.

He's managed to vex paying customers, Iike me, into alternatives.

I'm finding Lingodeer to be doing the business and they're making a selling point of using humans not AI.

#cancelDuolingo #LingoDeer

Adding to the thread:

I put this in job market impact rather than informational microplastics or education, because the goal is explicitly to eliminate wages. That remains the no 1 goal of AI. Eliminate the wages paid to you.

bsky.app/profile/hype...

#CancelDuolingo

Check out #cancelDuolingo there's some good recs out there.

Screenshot from Duolingo needlessly bragging to a user that they have reached #1 in the Diamond League during the first day with a whole entire 764 XP. User in question is a square-headed, green-haired, bespectacled cartoon person wearing an unimpressed expression. Their status bubble shows a dumpster fire emoji and their display name is "#cancelduolingo_Duo_uses_AI"

thanks #cancelduolingo

A list of 10 Mandarin measure words and what you use them for

Lingodeer demonstrating its superiority to Duolingo!

Measure words exist in English as in a pair of socks, a pair of trousers, a pair of scissors and a pair of underpants, although they are much less commonly used. You _could_ use "ge" for everything. :-/

#Duolingo #cancelDuolingo #LingoDeer

Just deleted @duolingoverde.bsky.social after a 2150 day streak. I will not support any company that fires workers and replaces them with AI. Subpar app. Fire the CEO not workers. #cancelduolingo #boycottduolingo #duolingo

Glad I canceled @duolingobrasil.com.br sometime ago. I’m wondering when people are going to realize that making statements like this may help them with the Wall Street, but it probably won’t help them with Main Street. #ai #cancelduolingo

www.businessinsider.com/duolingo-ceo...?

Disappointingly Busuu uses gen AI so I'll have to give them a skip.

#cancelDuolingo
#duolingo
#busuu

Japanese Study Apps That DON'T Use AI - Japanese Talk The plagiarism machine seems to be worming its way into everything. Here's a list of Japanese Study apps That DON'T Use AI!

I was going to post this article this weekend but Duolingo's recent doubling down on replacing humans with generative AI pushed me to get it out sooner.

Here's a list of amazing apps for learning Japanese that DON'T use generative AI!

#cancelDuolingo
jtalkonline.com/japanese-stu...

When I finished Duolingo Arabic a couple of years ago I went to iTalki and found a great *human being* Arabic teacher. Some places have free conversation meetups for people to practice languages (check your library!). And there’s always watching media in your target language. #cancelDuolingo

fyi if you want non-ai based alternatives, the #CancelDuolingo hashtag has a bunch listed, i’m interested to see lingonaut when it releases

//which is obv a bad option, there are many AI-free alternatives to that, starting from various free courses on youtube and ending with various apps
#FuckAI #cancelDuo #cancelDuolingo

Tchau #duolingo

All my homies hate AI

#cancelduolingo

#cancelduolingo

#FuckAI

#CancelDuolingo

Time to ditch Duolingo. #cancelduolingo

I'm a big believer in learning languages. I've been recommended Lingonauts, Mango Languages, and Lingodeer amongst others.

See #cancelDuolingo for more.

It's important that people keep up positive hobbies rather than stopping because a CEO is a dipshit. 😀

I've been using the #cancelDuolingo to suggest alternatives.

It's important to keep people channelling positive energy. 😀

I'm seriously against AI and seriously for languages.

😀

Transfer that money to an app that doesn't use AI.

I'm very anti gen AI so I'm using #cancelDuolingo to find alternatives. 😀

Yes! And if you Iook at #CancelDuolingo, lots of alternatives to try. 😀

Ah #memrise will give you rubbish AI too. 😞

#cancelDuolingo

Which languages are you learning? 🤔

I was a subscriber too so I'm doing #cancelDuolingo and have found out a lot of different options.

Mango languages
LingoDeer
Memrise
Lingonauts

Sounds fun!

Lots of other apps out there.

Which languages were you looking at? 😀

I'm doing Spanish, Mandarin and Irish. 😀

#cancelDuolingo