Uh oh.
Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down
Submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/654594/discord-new-ceo-jason-citron-humam-sakhnini
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midtsveen@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
Noodle07@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Big uh oh. We had a good run though
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 months ago
Did we tho
midtsveen@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
Yeah, discord was very fun in its early days until 2020 and covid. 😆
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Uh oh.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Discord is just another social media site that has a whole lot of people fooled into thinking it’s not creating profiles on them for advertising. Gonna get real obvious real soon though.
I guess thats OK for community dev teams and stuff - like it works well, users can come and accesa the faq or support and leave. But it can leave a walled garden of data in there if they want to move elsewhere later though.
Larger issue is the people that share their whole lives there as a quasi-Facebook. That’s all getting hoovered up and sold to the highest bidder - alongside data like exactly what activity you do on your PC (processes running when and where for how long etc - Discord monitors a lot)
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The names escaping me but there’s a site you can use that turns your discord into a publicly accessible website / archive.
Check out mautrix-discord too if you’re a server admin, you can puppet everything there and switch seamlessly.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
they’re gonna make it a million times worse putting the activision blizzard guy in charge.
andxz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Please tell me you’re joking. I was just beginning to like some of the discord communities I’ve joined over the years.
Fuck that guy, seriously. Activision already ruined WoW, which I sincerely liked a lot for a very long time.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
sadly no it was mentioned in here: theverge.com/…/discord-new-ceo-jason-citron-humam…
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 11 months ago
fyi discord had been enshitifying for at least 5 years now
riodoro1@lemmy.world 11 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?
stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
“this hill was so easy to walk down, why is it so hard to walk up it?”
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 11 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
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
I don’t want more apps, I want to return to
monkeearly 2000s web forums.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s basically an old school chat room at that point.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Where the fuck are we gonna go?
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
You could go to matrix
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
IRC is basically all the chat portions of discord.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Forums. Lemmy. Group Chats.
What does discord do that these dont bar create a barrier for use?
barryamelton@lemmy.world 11 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.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 11 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.
truxnell@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Where am I moving my friends group? Revolt is nice but not quite ready for primetime / getting a rewrite, and I’ve always been iffy about matrix. Is a signal group chat literally where we’re heading to!?
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Movim (XMPP)
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What’s wrong with matrix/element? We started running our own server for our household group chats and it has been solid.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 11 months ago
SMS/RCS
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
While matrix/element is still very much in development, it is improving constantly. A year ago i sometimes had issues with desynced encryption keys and now that never happens anymore. There is now a modern group call and screensharing system and the new ElementX mobile app which is much faster than the old app. Now there is also OIDC and in a few weeks QR code login will be released, so no more manually entering login and encryption key verification stuff.
derin@lemmy.beru.co 11 months ago
QR code login is technically out, you just need to be running your own homeserver (and MAS) to use it.
But, yeah, exciting to finally have that.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Why iffy about matrix? You could always use mumble or teamspeak still
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As someone who runs a Mumble server (and has for over a decade) – it’s really not a replacement for the user experience that is Discord.
People want a unified UI, the ability to create communities with some amount of customization, embedded/live content, plus voice and video so they can chill and play games together. Mumble is just voice, and while it’s a very good implementation of that, it’s not even in the same user space as Discord.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
[deleted]Dumhuvud@programming.dev 11 months ago
Let’s be real, the enshitification started quite some time ago. Though I do expect it to get much worse.
SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 11 months ago
Yeah, you are not even paying for minutes yet
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There guess the chat app.
GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey bruh u wanna buy nitro bruh. It’s the new shit bruh
Psythik@lemm.ee 11 months ago
What the fuck does Nitro even do, other than give you some useless emoji?
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I got nitro for higher audio quality so I could stream background music while running a DnD campaign over discord.
It also increases your streaming resolution which is quite useful.
It also lets you use emojis from any server in any other server, which isn’t “useful” but is fun and I do it all the time.
For these 3 things I think it’s worth it. It’s worth noting I have a grandfathered Nitro plan that is more features than “Nitro Basic” but less features than the next tier at a cost that’s in between.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Increased file attachment sizes (10->50->100MB depending on tier, I think).
Cross post emojis from any server you are on.
Cross post stickers from any server you are on.
Higher maximum server count.
One free server boost.
Probably a couple more vanity shit. Yep, entirely laughable business model.
boreengreen@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Does revolt have screen share with audio? What about noise filter?
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Once Discord enshittifies, lazy devs won’t be able to say “follow our Discord for updates!” anymore.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lol “once Duscord enshittifies”. Bro… It happened years ago.
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It was never good from the start, as a voice chat program, it’s miles behind ts3 and mumble, never liked discord, isn’t that what gamer pedo’'s use to get in contact with younger kids anyway?
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
lol what, Discord enshittified years ago.
doorknob88@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m a lazy dev and want to get ahead of this, where should I post my updates?
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
RSS
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Github (and alternatives), Fediverse, Reddit, Matrix
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
…bluesky?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Back in ye olden days you’d have your own website, a blog, or maybe a forum. It was indexable on Google and anyone could see and interact with your updates. If not for that there’s always steam.
merde@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
rss?
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
On whatever platform(s) you sell your games. The key is not expecting someone to sign up for a different service for your updates.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hopefully they move to element
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Hopefully they just post updates on the platforms they sell their games on. I shouldn’t need to sign up for anything else.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Fuck IPO imminent
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
What a lemon!!!
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I get ads in my discord now. Revolt, Matrix, thats your queue.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Cue, unless you want them to get in line to do the same thing.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah get in line and get installed on my computer.
scala@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Are those any good or better than guilded?
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Probably not. Revolt is pretty bare bones but the customization is great. No video sharing.
Matrix is not something you can just set up with no skills.
But Builder’s story is exactly the same as Discord’s just one chapter behind.
malloc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.
Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.
Mora@pawb.social 11 months ago
Humam - like human, but not really.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Kind of like how Marcus Persson was almost a person?
baronvonj@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Rob Zombie: More Humam than hu-man! He left Activisiioooonnnn!
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.
cm0002@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Slack but for video games
Lol when introducing new employees to Slack who haven’t used it before I always say “It’s Discord, but for work” haha
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Haha that’s funny, when I first had to use slack and discord, I thought oh this is IRC, just with extra crap
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I miss slack every day, teams is getting better but… Ugh
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wait, there’s actually humans working at Discord? I thought the entire thing was run by bots.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 months ago
“working” lol. He’s the founder and CEO, he collects most of the money.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We need a decent replacement for this, stat. Once they go into IPO mode it’s gonna get real shitty, real fast.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Mumble?
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Matrix for chatting, when we need voice chat we use ts3. Been using it for so long now, I don’t understand the problem why people dont use it
Psythik@lemm.ee 11 months ago
We already have TeamSpeak/Ventrillo, and I think IRC is still a thing?
Mac@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I already left, enjoy it for me.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh wow, it can get shittier?
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Revolt?
catloaf@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This is them going into IPO mode.
Matrix is a reasonable replacement.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
A bitter end for this lemon.
easily3667@lemmus.org 11 months ago
LLMs are about to get a whole lot more edgelord.