Uh oh.
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Big uh oh. We had a good run though
Did we tho
Yeah, discord was very fun in its early days until 2020 and covid. 😆
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)
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.
Uh oh.
they're gonna make it a million times worse putting the activision blizzard guy in charge.
fyi discord has already been enshitifying for at least 5 years now
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?
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.
I don't want more apps, I want to return to ~~monke~~ early 2000s web forums.
Granted they're not the growing and bustling places they used to be, but there are still both niche and "lifestyle" forums that are alive and stable. Other than this place, one of the latter is where I spend most of my online socializing time.
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
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.
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its gonna enshittify
Let's be real, the enshitification started quite some time ago. Though I do expect it to get much worse.
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Once Discord enshittifies, lazy devs won't be able to say "follow our Discord for updates!" anymore.
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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!?
What's wrong with matrix/element? We started running our own server for our household group chats and it has been solid.
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We need a decent replacement for this, stat. Once they go into IPO mode it's gonna get real shitty, real fast.
This is them going into IPO mode.
Matrix is a reasonable replacement.
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