this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025

444 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

69548 readers

3293 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

444

Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

175 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 2) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Discord is just another social media site that has a whole lot of people fooled into thinking it's not creating profiles on them for advertising. Gonna get real obvious real soon though.

I guess thats OK for community dev teams and stuff - like it works well, users can come and accesa the faq or support and leave. But it can leave a walled garden of data in there if they want to move elsewhere later though.

Larger issue is the people that share their whole lives there as a quasi-Facebook. That's all getting hoovered up and sold to the highest bidder - alongside data like exactly what activity you do on your PC (processes running when and where for how long etc - Discord monitors a lot)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The names escaping me but there’s a site you can use that turns your discord into a publicly accessible website / archive.

Check out mautrix-discord too if you’re a server admin, you can puppet everything there and switch seamlessly.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

they're gonna make it a million times worse putting the activision blizzard guy in charge.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

fyi discord has already been enshitifying for at least 5 years now

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Discord ruined what was left of online forums and so it’s users now deserve the full force of enshittification. It was so easy to join, how come it’s this hard to leave?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Mutual hostage taking, you can't leave because everyone is there, and they can't leave because you're there.

Only collective action can be organized to break this social trap. The easiest way is to require the garden's walls pulled down.

But I'd be fine putting down the executive

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's hard to leave because it's easy to join, and because it has the critical mass of users. Simple as that. It takes a lot to get people to abandon their chats, their friends, their groups, and the years of built-up message history, for an app that likely has fewer users and fewer features.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea I saw the writing on the wall years ago. Why do I want a fucking client to talk to mass people. That is a shit format for more than like 6 people in a room.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's basically an old school chat room at that point.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Where the fuck are we gonna go?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

IRC is basically all the chat portions of discord.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you think everyone using the Discord/Slack/Mattermost/Rocketchat/... generation of chat with inline image display and all those features, voice and video chat and screen sharing is ever going to switch to IRC at this point you are simply delusional.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Better though because you don't need an account, and can gain a lot of anonymity via an eggdrop or vpshell etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Forums. Lemmy. Group Chats.

What does discord do that these dont bar create a barrier for use?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Voice chat and screen sharing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've got that in my group chats in Telegram but since we should all be moving to FOSS and decentralization, have you considered setting up Jitsi? It integrates with Matrix too. That already pretty much gets you most discord functionality that people care about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like a phone call? Group voice chats? I would have thought tis was built into consoles and services, seems odd that Twitch doesnt have this feature.

I have only ever seen it used as a terrible forum clone where discussion sucks and security is poor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Like a phone call? Group voice chats?

Yep, or even a watch party (group voice chat with someone sharing his screen). You can't do that on forums or lemmy.

Not sure about twitch, I only use that to watch streams, never to do streams.

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Element. If you are missing something, talk to all those motivated people doing Discord bots or whatever, they can contribute to Element/Matrix. And it's actually open source, they keep their contributions, contrary to all the work they have done for Discord for free.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

I dunno. There’s probably a discord group that discussed it but you are not in it so I guess you won’t ever know.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments