On one hand I think people shouldn’t use Discord anyway, but also, we need to figure out how to make the services we use sustainable.
Discord’s mobile app will have video ads starting in June, the company announced today. The initial pilot for the video ads, which Discord calls Video Quests on Mobile, will offer advertisers the ability to “showcase trailers, make impactful announcements, and highlight premium content” to users, Discord said.
“Impactful.” A word that no human outside of marketing uses.
I would never engage in marketing… except for my own indie projects.
The enshitification continues.
make the services we use sustainable
we can start by not relying on startups and corporations at all.
federated solutions like lemmy or matrix have the advantage of not being a capitalist scam with conmen at the top. i’m sure better decisions will be made here when we need more money.
You’re right, but even Lemmy is reliant on donations
reddit was relying on donations and banner ads for the longest time too. i honestly don’t think a text-based forum will be that expensive to run until its very full of people, i guess well see how instances react over time to an increasing userbase.
Sooo, where will people go next? What alternatives are available?
Matrix, Revolt
Gimme push to talk.
I personally use Matrix for text and Mumble for voice, but most probably won’t go anywhere. Discord is convenient, and most users won’t care enough about some extra ads to put in the effort to migrate.
Yeah. I mean ill probably stop using the mobile app but unless others migrate I’ll still use the desktop version
For “voice chats with text”, Mumble. Hopefully Jabber or in the worst case scenario Matrix for the general use case.
Can’t seem to catch a break, huh? Why can’t we just have nice things?
Is there an alternative app that offers a centralised account service but with user hosted servers?
I mean Matrix works across providers, so don’t think you need a centralized account service - just like there’s no central account service for email.
Matrix/Element allows for mixing different servers for each part of the stack:
