Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things

RalfWausE@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Matrix sadly doesn’t have the bots, apj, or infrastructure that Discord has. Not to mention its a horrible alternative to Discord, not having permissionable channels is a deal breaker…

  Trust me, I want to abandon this ship more than anything but my games/orgs/clans rely heavily on a lot of discord automation that just isn’t even possible in Matrix.

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• gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Discord got popular because it did Skype and Mumble better than both, but it has suffered a lot from Enshitification

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  • Jpeasy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How has it suffered at all in enshitification?

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    • Shirasho@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Added undismissible gamification features nobody asked for, hiding more and more features behind boosts, and constant breaking of their mobile app.

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      • Jpeasy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ignorant question, which features have been hidden behind pay wall that was available before hand?

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    • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah yes, I definitely want banner ads, “Quests” and a Microtransactions Store for NAME COLOURS

      That’s not Enshitification at all…

      /sarcasm

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      • Jpeasy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But realistically for a free tool with the functionality it has. The skippable microtranactions arent a big deal. The core functionality hasnt been effected at all.

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    • pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They tried being a game store at one point, where you bought Steam games through them.

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      • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They’re doing this again, pushing to be a kind of market place and data gathering tool for games.

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• turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use both matrix and discord regularly and matrix is nowhere near a viable alternative for discord, the way they work is just too different. The only real alternative I’ve been able to find is guilded but it’s no better than discord since it’s still completely centralized and closed source

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m on Matrix. That felt like an epic accomplishment that required both mobile and desktop. I don’t remember why it was so difficult, but the registration/login/association process was awful. Maybe that’s just Matrix.org.

    Looking for things to do with my Pi that I’m upgrading today with an SSD. Maybe I’ll run my own Matrix server on it so that there can be something else technically running with no traffic.

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  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Came here to say this. Matrix is also a bit clunky still.

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• galaxy_nova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t want to use it but the thing is I need to convince my friends and the 50 servers I’m in to switch too…

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• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also: Stoat (formerly Revolt)

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  • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder who sued them... maybe Revolut?

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• Auth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  IRC doesnt fit the usecase at all.

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• VeloRama@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  can’t embed content on irc. that alone makes it not viable as alternative, because communities rely on this feature to share content and memes.

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