Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads
Submitted 2 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://discord.com/blog/checkpoint-3-leveling-up-discord-quests-with-orbs-and-advanced-measurement
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baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Grostleton@lemm.ee 2 days ago
What’s the exchange rate of Discord Orbs to Stanley Nickels?
baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It has to be one of those ‘Lim~x~ as X approaches 0’ Calculus things where X is the value of Discord Orbs.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 days ago
dumbpotato@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
You know, I’ve seen this image at least 15 years ago and thought it was a joke.
Now that I’m older now, I’m guessing this is an actual diagram for implementing and perhaps patenting interactive commercials?
We literally reward people in our society for being as shitty as possible. Can we stop doing that?
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Yes, this is real.
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
🤢🤮
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m waiting for the day we get the Black Mirror technology where the ad stops playing when you look away and doesn’t start again until you look back at it, forcing you to watch the entire ad all the way through
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 day ago
And the ad is like my dead mom selling me dick pills
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Online startup software developer life cycle in a nutshell:
- Geeks are in charge, you’re creating a cool communications platform.
- Accounts are in charge, you’re gamifying ad clicks.
MacStache@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
How in the hell has that app gone so far down? This must be a record in enshittification.
dumbpotato@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Yeah, di$cord has definitely been speedrunning the deterioration of their platform.]
It’s a shame because they started as a darling of the gaming community with a lot of loyalty when people were switching to micro$hit like $lack and team$.
I guess capitalism and endless growth don’t actual translate to improved products for the rest of us. Go figure.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 1 day ago
Mark my words, any free service that hosts images is on the cycle. I saw it happen to Reddit and Imgur
Promising to host everyone’s data for free forever is a promise that only a devil at a crossroads can make
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Don’t forget to tip your instance admins!
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Well they changed CEOs a month ago
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s over
13igTyme@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I warned my friends that Discord is looking to go public. Just wait, it’s going to get a lot worse.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know if you saw the news last month but Discord just replaced a founder with a former Activision-Blizzard exec as CEO.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
They truly have zero clue how users actually use their software. Not a single person is going to use this just like every other stupid gimmick feature they’ve added in the past and then promptly removed.
ryper@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Users on reddit and lemmy always seem to think ad-based stuff is going to fail, and then it turns out people in the real world are depressingly accepting of ads. I would bet that this program is more likely to be expanded than canceled.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
I told my sister she can use an adblock to block ads while she’s browsing. She said “why would i want to do that, ads show me what to buy” she loves personalised ads and the idea that all her interests are being track so she can be served relevant ads.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
Part of that is because ads that are enjoyable and for things people enjoy often don’t even register as ads to people. When people think of ads they typically think of unwanted distractions for things they don’t want. They don’t necessarily think of something like a free sticker for their favorite video game given to them at s convention. They may even put it on something like a laptop or water bottle. The same people may say they “hate ads”.
I’m not trying to throw shade on those people, I think pretty much everyone is going to be accepting of at least some type of hypothetical thing that’s enjoyable and/or useful to them. A prime exam is having a business listed in a directory. Someone mentioned that as an alternative to advertising as if companies don’t pay to put their names in those directories.
None of this is meant to be any sort of criticism against anyone based on what they do or don’t view as an ad, I’m just trying to help explain why, at least some of the time, it seems “people in the real world are depressingly accepting of ads.”
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I swear they are soulless NPCs put on this earth by demons to torture us.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I close every popup, ad, and whatnot. Read nothing, join my voice channel and talk with friends.
Discord has no features imo but voice and text. Everything else is useless and not needed. I will never give them a dime. No point.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The bigger servers i am in always have someone “boosting” it.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The end is coming
Sivilian@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
How do I bot this so I don’t see the ads and get free nitro so ads are removed?
roserose56@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
No need, use discord canary.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
americans LOVE enshittifications.
Zacryon@feddit.org 20 hours ago
What a funny coincidence that I’ve hear about this discord alternative in a post just a couple before this one in feed.
pyre@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
58008@lemmy.world 2 days ago
RIP Discord.
viking@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Fuck this shit.
Libra@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Next thing you know the ‘orbs’ will be NFTs and we’ll all be expected to grind away at their ‘quests’ (probably training AI) to earn ‘real money’.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Wanna see my orbs on discord?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You son of a bitch. I’m in!
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
Sure
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oooh yeah, dust off the hotline auto clickers.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The lesson of Pay-To-Surf will keep being taught by reality until it gets taught in business school.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
how good of an alternative is matrix to discord?
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Not as feature rich, quite buggy, inherently more private but also less usable.
The above compounds when trying to get the non-techies to use it, because sometimes it doesn’t just work
2910000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Started running a homeserver recently, trying to get non-techy friends to join, can confirm this is difficult (the main one right now being people using old software on their phones, one friend was running iOS 14 for crying out loud)
Once set up I find it OK as a user
Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Unfortunately, the official desktop app is essentially unusable.
Fractal is pretty good but less features.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Not great. It’s missing discord features like screen sharing and voice rooms (only sort of has them through a third party app, Jitsi, but that experience is… not great).
It also has moderation issues, lacking tools needed to keep spam out and easily control it when it does get in.
I recently deleted my account because there was a spam wave sending out room invites to anti-trans named rooms, and there’s no way to mass ignore, you have to click on every invite, click ‘ignore’ and wait like 15-30 seconds for the server to process.
Related to the above it has performance issues, a lot of UI actions just have a delay to them making the user experience feel really crummy.
dumbpotato@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Matrix suffers from some pretty poor design decisions and implementations.
I expect its flaws to get ironed-out over the years, but right now people switching from discord to matrix will find their experience severely lacking.
To give some examples, video chatting is not as inuititive in matrix. You can’t even test it on your own without being in a server with specific permissions that allow you to use your camera when nobody else is around. Really fucking stupid design decision.
Another example is the lack of channels. It’s mind-boggling to me how they’re not implemented yet. Matrix will never be competitive with discord until that changes.
tatann@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I made a few friends switch earlier this year and for our use case it works
Minding we only need a text chat during the day for shitposts, cat GIFs, and the occasional “Gaming tonight ?” “Fuck yeah” “For the Emperor !”
Then we use it for voice chat during the gaming session
To be honest, I don’t think we could have switch if they weren’t a bit tech-savvy and willing to struggle a bit with the encryption at first (but now it’s setted, it works with no issue)
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I like it, personally, but I don’t use voice chat.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Chortle my orbs
shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Jesus Christ (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾.
There is one community I’m active in on Discord, and it’s a very wholesome and positive one id hate to lose, but damn I’m hating Discord.
Is there a CLI Discord client for Linux? I could tolerate that.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
You can host your own matrix instance then bridge discord (and everything else from LinkedIn messenger to WhatsApp) to matrix with double puppeting so people won’t even realise you’re not on discord.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hmmmmmm that is an option. I am a user of matrix
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
enshittification is full force now
drislands@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is there a peer to peer equivalent to Discord? That feels like it would be the best option, since it wouldn’t rely on a centralized company that could enshittify the product.
derin@lemmy.beru.co 2 days ago
Only option available is Matrix. It has its problems, but they’re being worked on.
Right now it lacks the gaming/voice chat parts of discord - so for an OSS alternative for that part of discord specifically, there’s Mumble.
For everything else, Matrix is a good alternative. Just be sure to pick a discord-like client. (E.g. Commet or Cinny)
Libra@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Damn, I’ve been thinking about checking it out, but if it doesn’t do voice at all (and I would also really like streaming) it’s just not worth it to me. Text chat is nice, but I spend 2-3 hours evenings hanging out in voice with friends and I don’t want to lose that. Messing with two separate apps is just not worth it atm, so I’ma keep steadfastly ignoring Discord’s bullshit until Matrix is where I need it to be to switch. Although then the problem will be getting everyone else to switch, of course.
msage@programming.dev 1 day ago
I use Jitsi for my voip / screen share
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s what we’ve started using my friends and I, can’t complain, sure it doesn’t integrate all the gaming shit but just have it running in the background so we can talk anyway
rdri@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Seems like you have to keep something running for it to work. Some obscure service relied on it as a support channel and last thing I remember is that matrix server stopped working. Though it would help so much if it would be p2p.
solrize@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I’ve never used Discord – is it similar to Mumble? I tried Jami but found it too unreliable to recommend.
drislands@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It serves the key purpose of Mumble, in that it provides a reliable way to get in a voice chat with people. The other features (text chat, video calls, screen sharing, “servers” that let people aggregate for a dedicated purpose/community) come together to make a legitimately good product that’s hard to replace.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hopefully Revolt (a Fediverse alternative to Discord) continues to improve and can completely take the place of Discord relatively soon.
Hack3900@lemy.lol 2 days ago
I don’t think Revolt is Fediverse, afaik it’s entirely centralized without plans for interop or federation
Please update me if I just didn’t find the right referenceunderline960@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.
However, this does not necessarily mean federation is off the table, possible avenues are:
- Implement our own federation protocol
- Implement a promising up and coming federation protocol, polyproto
- Implement the Matrix protocol (unlikely, obtuse and unstable)
- Implement the XMPP protocol (battle-tested and stable)
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Wel there goes my discord account. Bye you won’t be missed
Goretantath@lemm.ee 2 days ago
“Here little monkey, get your food pellet!”
fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Leave Zenyatta alone, Discord >:(
ozoned@piefed.social 2 days ago
This has been tried and tried again. The first time I remember seeing this was in the '90's where a "free" dial up ISP was trying this. NetZero maybe? Didn't work then, won't work now. They'll pay out so little it won't be worth it. Don't do it kids!
carp1@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Peter Sellis can take those Orbs and shove them up his Ass I don’t want this shit!
Ilixtze@lemm.ee 2 days ago
pondering my uninstalling discord
Mwa@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I wish I can use Matrix discord is probably the last privacy invasive app I use (for my friends mainly)
tabular@lemmy.world 2 days ago
🤢
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I admittedly haven’t looked very hard for an alternative. But I fully expect to be forced to move elsewhere in the next year or two due to their increasingly belligerent chasing of profits.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Same. I just hope my friend group and by some extension the gaming community chooses something that won’t fall into the same pitfal of closed source for profit organizations.
I hope the transition is towards matrix or something like it.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hopefully, I would love a discord alternative that does the same thing but is open sourced similar to the fediverse.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What exists that cannot be sold to a high enough bidder? Even Lemmy isn’t magically immune. If the admins of .world got handed checks for a couple million dollars in exchange for the rights to operate the servers, what would discourage them from cashing out?
The internet is fundamentally a privatized system that exists to generate profit for investors. There is no true public domain. Its all just turf up for sale, some of which hasn’t gone to a notable bidder yet. If you do manage to improve a patch of digital real estate to the point where someone will pay you enormous sums to divest, you’d be a fool not to take the money.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What genuinely confuses me is who they’re finding to buy this shit to begin with.
I’ve seen so many of these failed “Join our club to score points to get tokens to buy virtual dongles that you can use to get into our more-elite clubs with better points and color tokens” schemes over the last ten years. It’s like everyone wants to be Chuck-E-Cheese, nevermind that the company went bankrupt five years ago.
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh it’s undoubtedly going to fail, but it should milk enough money out of their users to keep them going while their investors cash out
drislands@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It is a bit baffling. I think it’s more ethical than the alternative though: pay gating useful functionality. Offering paid pallete swaps doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, someone who would never pay for that, but it does at least mean I can just ignore it. If they were to, say, restrict voice calls to a paid subscription, suddenly I’m in a position where either I’m paying for the service or ditching it entirely.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
The replacement is matrix.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Yikes, hope matrix really improves soon.
Libra@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
The word you’re looking for is enshittification.
Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I thought it was called capitalism.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Keep an eye on Revolt.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is it open-source? Sounds like it does exactly what I want. Maybe I’ll create a shadow group there and make the permanent jump once discord becomes untenable.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It feels like literally the entire open source and games communities are on discord. Will they move too? I care about that even more than my DMs.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 18 hours ago
They were on IRC before and on a number of other chats systems before that.
They will move as soon as something better will come out, for various definitions of better
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You read my mind