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Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?

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[-] iAmTheTot@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

This will be an unpopular opinion here, but Discord is worth paying for and I do. Obviously, everyone's usage will differ, but I use it for video and voice chat for several hours a week and I can count on one hand the number of hours that have been disrupted by discord service outage. That kind of value is worth paying for imho.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 11 points 1 year ago

I am pretty sure that you can get a dozen of commercial XMPP providers who will offer the same quality of service, but won't cancel your account if you dare to use a "non-official" client

The problem with Discord is not that it's paid, the problem that is closed and creates a walled garden.

[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

But XMPP doesnt have any gaming focused features, no screensharing iirc, no group calls.

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Xmpp is by design, an extensible protocol. There just doesn't seem to be any motivation to develop for it.

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