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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Discord clearly feels comfortable enough to begin enshitification. Feels like anything related to it has a short lifespan. Like third party apps for reddit and the api fiasco.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Maybe this move by Discord will be an incentive for others to just in and start coding new services to fill the gaps. We can only hope...