Magic 8-ball says: enshittification is in your future

I was like "how could discord be any worse?" Then this drops xD

Is this the guy that wanted people to pay for reloading ingame? Society really is built to make idiots rich.

I've coped long enough, that's the final straw for me.

I'm cancelling my $3/month subscription and putting $1 to my instance, $1 to Wikipedia, and $1 to the Internet Archive. Not a lot but it's better than discord.

~~Doesn't seem like I can use PayPal for Lemmy and I don't wanna go through the process of another payment provider :/~~

Patrion supports PayPal

Anyone looking for an alternative, Revolt is FOSS and pretty much on par with Discord in 2015. They have voice chat and video chat is in development on their roadmap. You can even self-host your own server.

I never got the appeal of discord, but that's fine.

The use of it as a support for a project? So bad.

Hopefully it will collapse and go away.

Oh yeah, we're about to see things get really shitty on Discord.

"All right, everybody. I know there's been a sexism problem here at Discord, and I'm here to change that. If we really work hard and power through, I truly believe that we can work our way up to the kinds of numbers I was able to achieve back at Activision Blizzard."

RIP discord.

Discord is never going to be profitable lmao

It can be a loss leader for microsoft, but at the end of the day, discord will always lose money. The operational cost of discord is way too high

This change just means more enshittification like with every ceo change.

Honestly they should just go full on points shops for spending money on xbox, like steam. Give out points to use for customization. That way they could at least make some incentive to use xbox and probably boost sales.

Back to self-hosted teamspeak then I guess

user entered your channel

So the end of discord is nigh

o7 rip Discord, you wont be missed.

Okay boys and girls, time to start discussing the next migration. Where we goin'?

Enshitification applies to EVERYTHING

Problem is people are fucking lazy and will not move to another platform. I want teamspeak and vent back but people nowadays won't even try. So we are forced to keep using it. People have no balls to stand up to corpos just to learn something new. It's infuriating.

Quit discord last year. Moved my core friend group onto Signal. Video streaming sucks but it addresses most of my other concerns.

Potential alternatives and their issues:

• Guilded: owned by Roblox, faces same data/privacy concerns

• Discourse: backed by venture capital, same as above

• Revolt: slow development, no game streaming, otherwise decent

• Matrix: high technical barrier of entry, but promising.

If you're looking to kick discord as well:

• For game streaming, try Parsec (with their echo cancellation trick)

• For movie/video streaming, try Hyperbeam.