Magic 8-ball says: enshittification is in your future
Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company
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EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 year ago
FabledTurtle@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Is this the guy that wanted people to pay for reloading ingame? Society really is built to make idiots rich.
Wahots@pawb.social 1 year ago
I was like “how could discord be any worse?” Then this drops xD
andybytes@programming.dev 1 year ago
I just don’t take anything serious… I refuses to pay for anything and always a inch from burning it all down. Social media just is not for me but I love harvesting knowledge.
ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anyone looking for an alternative, Revolt is FOSS and pretty much on par with Discord in 2015. They have voice chat and video chat is in development on their roadmap. You can even self-host your own server.
AugustWest@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I never got the appeal of discord, but that’s fine.
The use of it as a support for a project? So bad.
Hopefully it will collapse and go away.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Network effect. The platform itself isn’t great, but it’s reached a critical mass of popularity.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’ve coped long enough, that’s the final straw for me.
I’m cancelling my $3/month subscription and putting $1 to my instance, $1 to Wikipedia, and $1 to the Internet Archive. Not a lot but it’s better than discord.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
RIP discord.
bfg9k@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Back to self-hosted teamspeak then I guess
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KhanLee@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
o7 rip Discord, you wont be missed.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
[deleted]EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I like Matrix, but it isn’t exactly the easiest platform to use and definitely has some jankiness with voice/video calls.
ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Revolt is pretty good! Most of the features you want from discord are already there. It’s FOSS and servers can be self-hosted.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
element isn’t bad tbh. I’ve been using it lately, and it’s actually caught up a lot.
Baguette@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Discord is never going to be profitable lmao
It can be a loss leader for microsoft, but at the end of the day, discord will always lose money. The operational cost of discord is way too high
This change just means more enshittification like with every ceo change.
Honestly they should just go full on points shops for spending money on xbox, like steam. Give out points to use for customization. That way they could at least make some incentive to use xbox and probably boost sales.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Does Microsoft own Discord?
Baguette@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You just made me look it up and apparently they canceled it when I heard about it
So nvm discord is doomed LOL They’re purely running on vc money and sooner or later this company will explode
qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But why? People just want to talk and chat. The technology has been around for ages! Let users host their own servers
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Was anyone else having trouble making a revolt account yesterday? I kept getting an error, I assume their servers are experiencing an influx of new users
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’m already working on a tool to replace discord for my gaming group. Planning on rolling out a stack of open source IM and Voice/Video chat with ActivityPub for text chat rooms.
Integrating them all into one app is where I’ll have trouble, especially since when replacing big corpo tools they need to work perfectly the first time or nobody willvdver want to use it.
__ghost__@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Can you provide a list of your stack? Doing the same has crossed my mind but I haven’t done much research yet
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’m still early in the research phases but so far the plan is a combined client for Galene and Mastadon. The current plan is to rip apart the apps as they exist and pull out the chunks useful for my needs, then build a basic webapp to interface with them that I can share with my friends.
Ideally I’d like to eventually roll out a docker image of the server stack as well so anyone can host it with just a couple clicks.
modifier@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
“Well I’ve been rolling down this well-worn road…”
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Quit discord last year. Moved my core friend group onto Signal.
Potential alternatives and their issues:
- Guilded: owned by Roblox, faces same data/privacy concerns
- Discourse: backed by venture capital, same as above
- Revolt: slow development, no game streaming, otherwise decent
- Matrix: high technical barrier of entry, but promising.
If you’re looking to kick discord as well:
For game streaming, try Parsec (with their echo cancellation trick)
For movie/video streaming, try Hyperbeam.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Thanks for reviewing these for us. I’ve tried some but not all of these.
applemao@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Problem is people are fucking lazy and will not move to another platform. I want teamspeak and vent back but people nowadays won’t even try. So we are forced to keep using it. People have no balls to stand up to corpos just to learn something new. It’s infuriating.
AugustWest@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Uh… You stand up to corpos. Just leave. Nobody is forcing you to use it.
applemao@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s well and good for us, but then we are just the isolated few who do it compared to all our friends that stay with discord because they’re comfortable on it.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
You can use matrix and still keep in touch with the lazy people. Having a place for people to go when they eventually get fed up will help a ton.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I want teamspeak and vent
xFire. God I miss xFire. It was better 10 years ago than any service before or since.
Iirc Yahoo frivolous-lawsuit’ed them out of existence. Q_Q
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 year ago
12 years ago Skype and team speak were the go to for voice chat for gaming. Once someone comes up with a less shitty platform, everyone will start to migrate again.
wise@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Another issue is console integration. I’ve got friends I play with using cross-play (PC-PS5), but the only service we can both use is Discord unless they use multiple devices.
I would love to use Mumble, Matrix or Revolt but it’s the same hurdle.
omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I miss Ventrilo <3
Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite dota
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Matrix is a good replacement for the text and image bit of Discord, but can anyone suggest a good alternative for the voice comms?
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 year ago
Matrix also has video calls
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Fuck Discord, I hope they go pedal to the medal and destroy the company in record time.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Pedal to the “metal”.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Sorry, all I do is win, so the floor of my car is covered in medals…
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
We need an fos alternative
greybeard@lemmy.one 1 year ago
I agree. Discord actually had a metaphor that I think plays well for federation. Specifically, they called each group a server. And organized the UI in a way that would make federation pretty transparent.
The only consufsing bit would be the concept of a home server login ID. Like, the lack of a central identity provider. But I think that isn’t a show stopper.
I kinda wish there were fed ID providers that all fed servers used for login and authentication. I’m not sure exactly how that would work, but being able to have a single identity across mastodon, Lemmy, and any other fed service would really simplify things once you were in the fediverse.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Was the ActiBlizz guy the one involved in all the sexual harassment?
Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So the end of discord is nigh
nukeforyou@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Enshitification applies to EVERYTHING
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Linux hasn’t enshittified. Neither has the fediverse. Enshittification applies to everything corporate and for-profit.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Linus dies
welp! pack it up! How’s BSD this time of year?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Originally it was a good descriptor of tech companies starting out as useful and then turning to shit as they leaned into becoming profitable, but if you was to use it as “things get shitty in favor of profits” then I guess it could apply to everything.
I liked the original where it had nuance and was a good shorthand specific to the tech trends.
azron@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Words can entshitify? Ahhhh. Everything given enough time will gravitate to its natural state of sucking ass. It’s the you didn’t die when you were the hero scenario all the way down.
archonet@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Oh yeah, we’re about to see things get really shitty on Discord.
applemao@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Already have embedded ads. I’m about done with this shit and willing to have no one to talk to just so I don’t give discord the satisfaction of using their Spyware.
prex@aussie.zone 1 year ago
sj_zero 1 year ago
Discord is like the dread pirate Roberts combined with a used car salesman. "I'll probably kill you tomorrow, you should buy nitro"