Yea I saw the writing on the wall years ago. Why do I want a fucking client to talk to mass people. That is a shit format for more than like 6 people in a room.
Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down
riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Discord ruined what was left of online forums and so it’s users now deserve the full force of enshittification. It was so easy to join, how come it’s this hard to leave?
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 months ago
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s basically an old school chat room at that point.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Exactly, and a terrible informational forum IMO
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Mutual hostage taking, you can’t leave because everyone is there, and they can’t leave because you’re there.
Only collective action can be organized to break this social trap. The easiest way is to require the garden’s walls pulled down.
But I’d be fine putting down the executive
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Where the fuck are we gonna go?
riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dunno. There’s probably a discord group that discussed it but you are not in it so I guess you won’t ever know.
barryamelton@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Element. If you are missing something, talk to all those motivated people doing Discord bots or whatever, they can contribute to Element/Matrix. And it’s actually open source, they keep their contributions, contrary to all the work they have done for Discord for free.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
You could go to matrix
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Forums. Lemmy. Group Chats.
What does discord do that these dont bar create a barrier for use?
remon@ani.social 2 months ago
Voice chat and screen sharing
boonhet@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’ve got that in my group chats in Telegram but since we should all be moving to FOSS and decentralization, have you considered setting up Jitsi? It integrates with Matrix too. That already pretty much gets you most discord functionality that people care about.
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Matrix?
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like a phone call? Group voice chats? I would have thought tis was built into consoles and services, seems odd that Twitch doesnt have this feature.
I have only ever seen it used as a terrible forum clone where discussion sucks and security is poor.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Unlike Forums discord exists.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
IRC is basically all the chat portions of discord.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If you think everyone using the Discord/Slack/Mattermost/Rocketchat/… generation of chat with inline image display and all those features is ever going to switch to IRC at this point you are simply delusional.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, I don’t expect it to happen, I’m just pointing out that it still exists and takes care of some of that functionality. I don’t think I’ve ever seen gifs, videos, or screen sharing implemented in IRC.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Better though because you don’t need an account, and can gain a lot of anonymity via an eggdrop or vpshell etc.
stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
“this hill was so easy to walk down, why is it so hard to walk up it?”
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s hard to leave because it’s easy to join, and because it has the critical mass of users. Simple as that. It takes a lot to get people to abandon their chats, their friends, their groups, and the years of built-up message history, for an app that likely has fewer users and fewer features.
Soggy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t want more apps, I want to return to
monkeearly 2000s web forums.Glitchvid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Granted they’re not the growing and bustling places they used to be, but there are still both niche and “lifestyle” forums that are alive and stable. Other than this place, one of the latter is where I spend most of my online socializing time.
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 months ago
no thank you I actually like chatting over a websocket connection instead of having to refresh a page every two minutes