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

• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s the best at what it does, but had been getting shitty in the way you described. However, it’s free and they have to support it somehow. I’ll put up with the nitro pushing and understand that’s my cost of doing business. If they go public, I’ll probably actively start looking for an alternative, because that always kills a product and it will for sure mean “AI” will be forced into it.

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  • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    However, it’s free and they have to support it somehow.

    These arguments might just give me an aneurysm.

    This has let so many horrible free to play games off the hook while they literally make billions in profits and have astounding profit margins.

    Discord makes money.

    In a non hyper greed infested world, they could simply coast at the level of wealth they are at now, still making free money for their investors, paying their workers, and improving the service, without making peoples lives shittier.

    There is no reason to justify this shit.

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    • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I agree, this is just an inexcusable reasoning that is essentially flawed. In all essence, the ads, the intrusive popups, the 1000 cookies which you have to accept and giving money to those poor billionaires is implied to be as the right thing to do - which is not.

      Justifications like this is why we still have shit software lying about the web and nothing is done about it. The companies dont care about the people, and they don’t care about op. Being a suckup for a corpo will get you nowhere - in fact saying that they’re the best, is just a false narrative.

      In the end that statement is essentially an oxymoron. Op is trying to justify the oppressive strategies of corpoware, while not realising that they already have info about op’s stepmother’s maiden name.

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s the best at what it does…

    Locking data away from search engines so that unless you’re in that little fiefdom you don’t get the information.

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    • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And preventing any internet archiving so any and all information on it is lost whenever the server is deleted. It never should have been used for anything but game chat.

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    • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Probably that too, but specifically the ability to spin up a private space to communicate with people for things like video games. Anyone that’s using it as their means of customer service is an idiot.

      Apparently I struck a chord with my post, so I’m curious what is better than discord, and free that made my statement controversial?

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      • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Also, I don’t see locking data from search engines as a bad thing. The fediverse isn’t search engine searchable either

        The fediverse not being searchable is one of the biggest flaws with it, and make it similarly ephemeral to Discord, except its actually worse because the sizes of communities are just in that goldilocks area of awfulness where there are echo chambers, and people are rude and toxic. Whatsmore, availability due to the small size is relatively mediocre.

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Matrix?

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      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        IRC for chat and mumble for voice.

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  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    discord recently did a survey about how users would react to adding AI

    in the options, you could say that you would be ok with ai if it was easily disabled and if it was marked

    i hope they follow the survey answers

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is. Which is why I‘m baffled they didn’t go public already.

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