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[–] yagurlreese@lemmy.world 82 points 1 month ago (1 children)

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

fuck

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What fuck

Discord has been a POS for years.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. Hopefully i can get my completely tech illiterate friends to switch lol

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

You underestimate their stupidity. B)

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Hehe yea lol. (I came first!)

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And so continues the enshittification.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I jumped ship like five years ago. Their intentions have been clear for some time.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Was it the introduction of Nitro?

[–] ISolox@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Teamspeak or mumble comeback???

(I know it won't)

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It sadly can't replace all the other things Discord does, but if all you want is low-latency VOIP with good sound quality - Mumble's your man.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Put up a wiki, it's all you really need for everything else

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

I think vent was the last of these I used before discord took off.

These days I just don't voice.

[–] NessD@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't Teamspeak coming back?

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

For some people TeamSpeak didn't go anywhere. I've been using TeamSpeak for the past 5 years as I started communicating with people who never gave it up.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Wadjet Eye games help fill the void :(

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Been using TS as a backup for years, can't complain.

[–] Uncurious3512@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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

[–] tankfox@midwest.social 21 points 1 month ago

Enshiftification marches forward. Hey IRC is still around!

[–] dirtycrow@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 1 month 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!

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 9 points 1 month ago

Revolt.chat

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it’s been enshittifying lately more and more anyway

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 1 month ago

People need to go back to real forums.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] who@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] MonkeyBrawler@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] rosco385@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.it 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Here we fucking go again, but lucky me I don't use it