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.
  • rosco385@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    18 minutes ago

    Got my fingers crossed the Discord IPO will be an absolute shitshow and no one is prepared to sink money into an already enshittified app.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      1·
      10 minutes ago

      Yes, people are very stupid if they invest in such a shitty platform. They’re going to lose all of their money.

  • MonkeyBrawler@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    44 minutes ago

    Discords ui and feature popups are kinda annoying and all, people apparently do not appreciate what they give us for free.

    Teamspeak had stagnated from being top dog for so long.

    People are really going to miss the Discord of today when you start getting banner ads flashing at the bottom of the screen or limited server slots.

  • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    20 hours ago

    leaving reddit was easy. i only had to move myself.

    leaving discord will be almost impossible, as I’ll have to move a dozen or so normies whom it took years getting them onto discord in the first place.

      • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        331·
        2 days ago

        It’s really funny watching them add paid features that older, established messengers have for free

        • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          13·
          2 days ago

          Genuinely just thinking of getting my tech illiterate friends onto matrix finally. Fucking discord’s been keeling and enshittifying (natural course for software like it ofc) but don’t think i can deal with their shit anymore. Shitty store shoved down your throat, bad performance/privacy, paid stuff like custom emojis, going public…

          Yeah fuck this, i should’ve jumped ship years ago.

          • Blastboom StriceEnglish
            2·
            12 hours ago

            Unrelated, but do you relize that you and the comment you reply to have the same character as profile picture? :))

            Edit: Lol, seems like it’s the same image, mirrored

          • who@feddit.orgEnglish
            6·
            1 day ago

            Let’s not forget an even bigger problem with Discord: It locks your communities, including contacts and years of content and discussions created by members, behind some corporation’s terms and conditions whims. You (or your friends, or the “server” admin) can lose access to it all at any time, without warning. They can and have used this as leverage to extort personal info from people. A policy change, accident, or technical glitch can leave you out in the cold.

            This alone is reason enough to avoid it.

              • SplashJackson@lemmy.caEnglish
                1·
                9 hours ago

                Computers and online tech has been popularized since the 90s, if they haven’t figured out even an iota of computer skills since then, well that’s on them

    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I tried signing up yesterday but kept getting a registration error, im guessing I wasn’t the only one with that idea, and their servers got strained

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Mumble for voice chat. (It already beats Discord in that department.) A server can be self-hosted, or rented for dirt cheap.

    Matrix is getting better all the time, and although it won’t replace all of Discord’s features today, it is catching up. I already use it for text chat, and wouldn’t be surprised if it could take over for video, screen share, etc. in the next year or so.

    Tip for people wanting to try Matrix now: Consider disabling encryption on your Discord replacement rooms until Matrix 2.0 is fully released, to avoid occasional frustrating glitches. That won’t be a loss coming from Discord, which doesn’t have end-to-end encryption anyway.

  • dirtycrow@programming.devEnglish
    161·
    2 days ago

    Looking forward to Discord’s enshittification. I’m annoyed at how many people expect you to use this insecure platform.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
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      7 minutes ago

      I can’t stand the fact that discord is used as a forum for many open source projects.

      It’s horrible, it weights a lot, it’s not easily searchable and it’s completely excluded from Google search results. Bring back forums!

  • Lvxferre [he/him]English
    8·
    2 days ago

    Be prepared to welcome Discordfugees in the same fashion as the Redditfugees.