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.
  • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 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
        281·
        1 day ago

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

        • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          12·
          1 day 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.

          • who@feddit.orgEnglish
            5·
            15 hours 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.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    17 hours 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.

    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 day 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

  • dirtycrow@programming.devEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

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