As Discord forces in more adverts and paid customization towards becoming a public company the CEO and Co-Founder, Jason Citron, has announced they're stepping down as CEO.
    • andybytesEnglish
      4·
      6 days 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.

  • FabledTurtle@feddit.nlEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Is this the guy that wanted people to pay for reloading ingame? Society really is built to make idiots rich.

  • vaguerant@fedia.io
    111·
    8 days ago

    “All right, everybody. I know there’s been a sexism problem here at Discord, and I’m here to change that. If we really work hard and power through, I truly believe that we can work our way up to the kinds of numbers I was able to achieve back at Activision Blizzard.”

    • nthavoc@lemmy.todayEnglish
      33·
      8 days ago

      I picture him saying this while he hangs a picture up of Bill Cosby in the board room. Yes, that was a thing at Activision/Blizzard. Time to start finding a new platform. Peak enshitification achieved.

  • Baguette@lemm.eeEnglish
    52·
    8 days 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.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      But why? People just want to talk and chat. The technology has been around for ages! Let users host their own servers

      • Baguette@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        6 days 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

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      24·
      8 days ago

      Linux hasn’t enshittified. Neither has the fediverse. Enshittification applies to everything corporate and for-profit.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      134·
      8 days 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.mlEnglish
        131·
        8 days 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.

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          8 days ago

          As long as we are using enshittification for anything going downhill my word example is lose getting an extra ‘o’ which makes reading ‘I hate it when I loose my keys’ painful. Why the hell is that so common now?

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
    311·
    8 days ago

    Okay boys and girls, time to start discussing the next migration. Where we goin’?

    • Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      151·
      8 days ago

      Host your own TeamSpeak server.

      The client is getting occasional beta release, but nothing for the server in years, although stuff is apparently being worked on. It seems they want to make it function more like Discord.

    • javiwhite@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      I’m looking to check out spacebar at the weekend. Seems they had some DMCA issues a few years back, but it looks as though the repo is still active.

      No idea whether the discord integration stuff still works, nor the details around the DMCA (I assume it’s due to the old name being fosscord) but it’s piqued my interest enough to give it a shot.

      Failing that, I’ll probably look toward revolt or a matrix + element setup as they seem to be the main suggestions for discord alternatives.

  • applemao@lemmy.worldEnglish
    223·
    8 days 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.

    • Wise@feddit.ukEnglish
      12·
      8 days 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.

    • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
      8·
      8 days ago

      I’m not lazy. i have matrix up and ready to go. the issue is I can’t just force 200+ people to just up and abandon a platform where all their stuff is for one community on that platform.

      in order for discord to truly die, it needs a HUGE exodus. as right now, my communities are too well integrated.

      basically discord needs the same mass exodus that Xitter had to bsky and the elephant one. its the only hope communities have to survive discord dying.

      we’re not being lazy. we’re trying to not have whole online communities get upended when discord finally kicks the bucket. (and it will. soon.)

      • applemao@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        I foresee it more as discord keeps operating fine but with even more embedded ads and trash, and people will become numb to it. Hence ipad baby generation being clueless with how it used to be with very little ads on the internet and corporations continuing to profit off of us.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      8 days 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.socialEnglish
      4·
      8 days 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.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      52·
      8 days ago

      Problem is people are fucking lazy and will not move to another platform.

      It’s not that people are lazy, it’s that a feasible alternative does not exist yet.

      • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        the problem is not that there is no feasible alternative, the problem is network effects.

        • Chozo@fedia.io
          3·
          8 days ago

          None of them come close to doing a single thing better than Discord, or even at the same level as Discord. There simply isn’t an application that realistically competes with any one of Discord’s features yet, let alone the entire suite. Every other platform currently available is either a downgrade in terms of features/functionality, or costs the user money (which immediately makes it prohibitive for 99% of users).

          • undeffeined@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            6 days ago

            Revolt seems to be very close to what Discord offers, at least at first glance. Its Free and Open Source too.

      • applemao@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days 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.

        • AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          Gotta take a stand. There have been a few things where I gotta tell friends that I can’t do this. If they won’t change… Meh. Gotta have principles.

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    7 days 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.

    Doesn’t seem like I can use PayPal for Lemmy and I don’t wanna go through the process of another payment provider :/

    Patrion supports PayPal

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    8 days ago

    Quit discord last year. Moved my core friend group onto Signal. Video streaming sucks but it addresses most of my other concerns.

    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.