The downfall of discord
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Cool. I'm out then.
Need alternatives to have built-in, easy to use screenshare with audio. And of course great noise filtering on voice chats.
I have a privacy news channel on my discord server because I'm desperately trying to get my folks to switch to Matrix, it hasn't happened yet but maybe it will now.
I just made a post on discord about this, and I link to alternatives such as a matrix group, signal chat, my YouTube channel, etc. if I am locked out, then I hope my followers can follow me to the new place, whatever that is.
Controversially, I cheer on the quickening of the inshitification of Discord. The sooner more folks are convinced to move away from that place, the better. I hope for a return to indexable and searchable old school forums (or their modern equivalents—Discourse is so nice).
I am not all computer, but isn't it possible to make something like discord that is searchable like forums?
Anything is possible. But I'm also a grump who doesn't like the fast pace of chat anyway, so I'm personally more interested in the forums approach.
Discord was shit from the beginning. Enshitification is useless here.
Sadly parts of my social group are currently migrating to discord.
You're probably right, sadly.
Problem is folks won't move, they're too entrenched. Look at twitter, it's still going ok despite having been a cesspit for years now. Or reddit, where some moved, but they moved to yet another enshittified platform: Discord. The amount of crap people ( especially the ones on discord ) will put up with is immense before they even consider switching.
Sad but true. A guy can dream.
I think when enough live streaming influencers switch to Revolt or whatever else, many people will follow.
Future headline: “Discord users begin testing Discord alternatives”
Already started. Revolt seems like it could be a near 1 to 1 replacement soon.
Too bad team speak hasn't released their updated server files.
I've never quit using teamspeak but I'd never see it as an alternative for the chatting functions of discord (neither private or server wide). Calling and screensharing on it is superior for sure, chatting is garbage.
Embedded matrix client and Teamspeak client in a webpage? Selfhost it.
I'm sure it can't be that hard. I'm planning on rolling out something similar, if it works I'll like the source code here.
I'm not a technical person, can't be bothered for that. In the end for tools like this its important non-tech people can also use it
This is something that I feel like should be at the top of every single tech related community. Not everyone is a techie and they shouldn't have to be to exiat in the modern world.
We really need more people working on tech that both has great privacy but also simplicity. Currently you always have to pick between convenience or privacy. Everybody that keeps pushing self hosting doesn't get that not everybody has the skills or time to set that up.
I work in IT, I do QA, I write test automation code, I setup CI/CD pipelines but the moment you put me on networking stuff I'm done, gg well played. It's a whole new skillset so if I as someone who grew up and work in a technical job has a hard time with it don't even think its going mainstream.
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oh sweet discord phrenology
Its going to be so fucking racist isn't it.