In an apparent effort to boost revenues, gaming social media startup Discord plans to implement ads into its free service. The step is expected in the coming days after 9 years of ad-free experience.

I don’t think people on this sub use it, but it’s great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.

    • @mamotromico@lemmy.ml
      11•8 months ago

      I’m constantly looking for something that could replace discord for me, I need something like the discord screen/game streaming to consider changing apps.

    • hswolf
      102•8 months ago

      the problem isn’t switching, the problem is making all the other people using It to switch too, not everyone cares about security or ads

        • @umbrella@lemmy.ml
          14•8 months ago

          most of the communities period are on discord

          even the one that really have no business being in there and really should be on a forum

      • @LWD@lemm.ee
        39•8 months ago

        There’s also privacy issues with Matrix:

        • Account deletion on Discord: username becomes [deleted]
        • Account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username
        • GDPR-compliant account deletion on Matrix: will not delete username

        Discord is also one (admittedly very lousy) company, while Matrix starts with the privacy issues and just gets worse

        Edit x2: I can’t place a parenthesis to save my life

          • @LWD@lemm.ee
            26•8 months ago

            Right after you promise to convince all their moneyed interests to accept those changes into the repositories they manage

    • @LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
      54•8 months ago

      I hate this recommendation because Matrix is just a terrible user experience. It has basically nothing of value over Discord other than being open source. Which is important but it’s not enough to counteract the amount of basic quality of life stuff that is just absolutely trash garbage on Matrix. Stuff that no normal user is going to put up with.

      If Discord does end up completely eviscerating itself the replacement will just be some new upstart closed Source program that is shiny just like how Discord took over from Slack it will not be the rise of Open Source because open source developers have no concept of user experience.

      I mean we don’t even need to start talking about how bad all the client options are and how half the features don’t work and all that. You can look no further than the login system. Average users do not like want or accept having multiple options for logging in. There’s a reason that irc, teamspeak, mumble despite in many ways being objectively Superior especially in the case of the voice chats ended up relegated to only nerds like us. Because no one else is willing to deal with keeping track of servers to connect with or how to cross join or add users.

      Same reason that Lemmy is like 90% technical users that are already invested in something like Linux. The average user got frustrated by how fragmented everything is how many duplicate channels and content you would find between instances and how difficult it was to search instances in the first place. I am here because I can ultimately work around those emoians, but the average person? Is not willing to and they shouldn’t have to

      • @mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8•8 months ago

        Someone else mentioned Revolt.chat higher in the thread and it seems to be a promising FOSS replacement for Discord. It’s looking to fix some of Matrix’s issues like not having voice channels (voice calls on Matrix aren’t the same)

      • @index@sh.itjust.works
        -1•8 months ago

        Which is important but it’s not enough to counteract the amount of basic quality of life stuff that is just absolutely trash garbage on Matrix

        The thread is about discord adding ads in their platform, so much of user experience… there’s no such trash on matrix

        You don’t need to be a technical user to use matrix you simply don’t have to be closed minded

      • @dev_null@lemmy.ml
        7•8 months ago

        some new upstart closed Source program that is shiny just like how Discord took over from Slack

        Guilded already exists. It’s a Discord clone with more features, but no one uses it. I assume they are just waiting for Discord to fail one day.