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Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company
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It's really funny watching them add paid features that older, established messengers have for free
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.
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
Hehe yea lol. (I came first!)
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.
Yeah. Hopefully i can get my completely tech illiterate friends to switch lol
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