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
monkeearly 2000s web forums.no thank you I actually like chatting over a websocket connection instead of having to refresh a page every two minutes
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.
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.
Where the fuck are we gonna go?
I dunno. There’s probably a discord group that discussed it but you are not in it so I guess you won’t ever know.
Element. If you are missing something, talk to all those motivated people doing Discord bots or whatever, they can contribute to Element/Matrix. And it’s actually open source, they keep their contributions, contrary to all the work they have done for Discord for free.
Forums. Lemmy. Group Chats.
What does discord do that these dont bar create a barrier for use?
Unlike Forums discord exists.
IRC is basically all the chat portions of discord.
Better though because you don’t need an account, and can gain a lot of anonymity via an eggdrop or vpshell etc.
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.
teamspeak are also stepping up their game ive heard
Matrix is still pretty jank
We already have TeamSpeak/Ventrillo, and I think IRC is still a thing?
Oh wow, it can get shittier?
Matrix for chatting, when we need voice chat we use ts3. Been using it for so long now, I don’t understand the problem why people dont use it
You can integrate Jitsi to your Matrix too. If you have a client that supports it, you get both chat and voice in the same place.
We need fast voice chat though, i play tournaments for cs2 and apex legends. Haven’t tested jitsi speed yet vs ts3 or mumble, which was the main reason we never used discord to start with
I must admit I’ve never reamly benchmarked any voice chat application. One advantage Jitsi does have is the ability to do p2p calls, saving a couple dozen milliseconds of transfer time compared to going through the server. But how fast is the software itself? No clue.
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)
fyi discord has already been enshitifying for at least 5 years now
Hey bruh u wanna buy nitro bruh. It’s the new shit bruh
What the fuck does Nitro even do, other than give you some useless emoji?
Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.
Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.
Wait, there’s actually humans working at Discord? I thought the entire thing was run by bots.
I get ads in my discord now. Revolt, Matrix, thats your queue.
There guess the chat app.
I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.
Slack but for video games
Lol when introducing new employees to Slack who haven’t used it before I always say “It’s Discord, but for work” haha
Does revolt have screen share with audio? What about noise filter?
