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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)

submitted 7 months ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (14 children)

Anyone got a recommendation for an open source alternative to discord? Basically just need voice, text, and screen sharing for a group of friends of like, 5-6 at most on at any time.

Even if I gotta pay to host a server, I’d rather do that than pay discord extortion money to avoid ads while still getting my data stolen.

[–] MacStache@sopuli.xyz 16 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I know it's still in development, but check out Revolt . It's basically Discord, but open source.

[–] niartenyaw@midwest.social 11 points 7 months ago (7 children)

i looked into revolt and pretty concerned with these two stances of the project

We don't think federation is beneficial to Revolt

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We have a variety of monetisation ideas lined up internally, with these, it is not my intention for us to paywall features and I find it unlikely we would ever do that considering it would contradict what we're trying to achieve.

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like, to me it seems they want to get communities invested and then later monetize in ways those communities don't yet know about?? idk that sounds extremely sus. especially when competing instances will fight against network effects with no federation.

[–] Notsosuperfloh@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

1st. implementing activitypub or any other federation protocol is quite a task. also in my opinion it does not need to be federated. there are basically no benefits, except convenience for the users.

2nd. it's open source. if you don't like the way it's monetized, fork it and make your own. it' not foss.

[–] niartenyaw@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago

that's all very fair, i guess i was just hoping federation was at least on a long term roadmap

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