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I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

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[–] Lyxea@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Discord is doing a lot of stupid things lately i must say

[–] lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

God I hope so. Discord works fine as a voice chat and groupchat for games. But it's insane to me that people use it as a replacement for message boards or websites and hosting files. It isnt indexed so you cant google it and a groupchat is a terrible format for this. Even as reddit dies you have some people acting like a glorified group chat is a good alternative. As an addition and supplement to a message board or website community sure this is how it's always been even in the old days there were boards with an active IRC chat. As the replacement? Awful.

[–] Lyxea@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

yeah i totally agree

[–] amki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a terrible format but it has the extreme advantage of being free.

[–] Laser@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole current fiasco stems from services being free and then trying to cash in later hoping that users won't switch, there's no guarantee that Discord won't pull similar stuff to Reddit. In fact they already are hostile to third party clients.

[–] amki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Discord has to pull this sometime becuase venture capital isn't going to sustain it for eternity and "Nitro" makes next to nothing compared to cost. I just hope Matrix has the tech to save me when it hits.

[–] local_taxi_fix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Teamspeak has a pretty slick new version that looks very much like discord. Not fediverse but pretty easy to self-host.