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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
submitted 1 year ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[-] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Anyone tried revolt.chat?

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

On a glance it seemed to work well enough.

There's also Matrix chat, which is federated.

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

we probably need to build it ourselves.

A federated, decentralized system that you can either self-host or join the servers of others, even better if we can offer to donate bandwidth, hosting, and processing power to servers we join in order to distribute the operational strain.

[-] Quik@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe you want to take a look at Spacebar, a FOSS Discord reimplementation with its own client and server for self-hosting in development

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[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

This is the path I was hoping to see Matrix go, but so far I haven't run across a method of joining servers, or if there is one, I also haven't actually seen any multi-server groups anywhere. Not that I have much experience with Matrix, so there certainly could be groups like that already?

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago

The closest thing to a Discord server Matrix-wise are Spaces, which basically are groups of Rooms that people can join by invite (and maybe by link? But not sure)

I see in Matrix as a protocol great potential but it needs some more projects that will focus on the different aspects of communication.

Element cannot aim to be both a WhatsApp replacement, a Slack replacement and a Discord replacement, but for sure 3 different alternatives for those services can be built all using the Matrix protocol

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[-] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Discord was 1st wave . It’s always been a terrible choice.

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[-] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Good. I hate how it became essentially the default

[-] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Same as it ever was.

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