This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Makes me miss Xfire. Feature-rich, customizeable, great quality, overlay feature that didn't suck, no bullshit. It was orders of magnitude better than Discord ever was.
...but not popular outside of gaming; and ofc the other big tech companies litigated the fuck out of it, so it never really took off and now it's gone. Boooooooo
I heavily decreased my usage of Discord when I was lowkey doxxed by a user on a server that I never posted a single ounce of personal information to.
What do the Lemmings recommend as a replacement for discord?
I'm happy to revert back to teamspeak if need be, I heard it's app recently got an overhaul (or at the very least a facelift).
I'm disgusted (though not shocked, I fucking called it years ago), that discord would go down this rabbit hole being that their main demographic is gamers. The stats are in, gamers (among every other living being) hates ads.
In fact, I pay for YT music because I think it's good value, but ive never once had YT premium, and I haven't seen an ad on their site for close to a decade now. (Still no pihole, that's likely next).
To circle back, if possible Lemmings, I would like to find a discord replacement that my folks would be willing to install/try out. I've got a couple people who have said "hey man, find a better spot and we'll tag along", however I have yet to find a suitable replacement on my own time.
Mattermost used to be the go-to alternative, not sure why it is not mentioned yet. Then it looks like Revolt is getting traction now.
Matrix.org has some Discord Clones that you can even self-host if that is what gets you off. Personally I'm planning to use their "Bridge" software to move everything from my old Discord channel to a private database but I have never maintained a database so it is currently safely on the backburner.
At least it is not "Enshittification Continues: Lemmy to begin showing advertisements on it's fediverse platform"
