I’m also on Discord, much as I’d rather not be - as I expect many others here also are.
Lemmy allowed me to cut reddit out completely, because it successfully fills the same purpose for me - a feed of news, information, memes and random stuff, with room for discussion. There may not be as much content as reddit or as many niche communities, but that doesn’t matter.
But with Discord, there are specific communities that compel me to stay on Discord, because that’s where the people are. I’d love to move entirely to better and more open platforms, but unless those communities move too I can’t leave completely.
That is only a very small use case for the majority of discord users, it has overtaken dedicated support forums for the vast majority of gaming, politics, day trading, you name it.
Then they slowly start adding ads (quests), paywalling more and more features and generally looking to juice their numbers for the IPO, after it goes public it will enshitify further as the csuite looks to get their payday and have their places filled with “shareholder value” types. It’s happened over and over just you wait.
I see this repeated a lot, but I’ve never experienced it or seen it in person. Just because something is repeated by reddit over and over doesn’t make it true. What I usually find is that both exist, usually with some interplay between the two. Maybe I’m just not a part of the communities that have gotten rid of their forum structure.
I hate ads as much as any other lemmy user, but quests are pretty non-invasive. I guess it’s annoying to close the popup once every so often. Nitro is still massively overpriced, but seems to only have features a normal user wouldn’t need.
I don’t like look forward to it getting worse, but I used Skype for some time after it became nearly unusable, so discord is still way better.
I’ve seen it happen with multiple platforms I used to enjoy. I happily paid for nitro for 5 years and recently stopped paying when I started getting popup ads.
I’m also on Discord, much as I’d rather not be - as I expect many others here also are.
Lemmy allowed me to cut reddit out completely, because it successfully fills the same purpose for me - a feed of news, information, memes and random stuff, with room for discussion. There may not be as much content as reddit or as many niche communities, but that doesn’t matter.
But with Discord, there are specific communities that compel me to stay on Discord, because that’s where the people are. I’d love to move entirely to better and more open platforms, but unless those communities move too I can’t leave completely.
Discord hasn’t started enshittification yet.
Oh it definitely has
They are planning to IPO later this year. In preparation they’ve already added shit features or removed some good ones.
Discord will soon be the next piece of shit.
As long as discord can voice calls and channels that are quick and easy to join, it literally does all most people need.
That is only a very small use case for the majority of discord users, it has overtaken dedicated support forums for the vast majority of gaming, politics, day trading, you name it.
Then they slowly start adding ads (quests), paywalling more and more features and generally looking to juice their numbers for the IPO, after it goes public it will enshitify further as the csuite looks to get their payday and have their places filled with “shareholder value” types. It’s happened over and over just you wait.
I see this repeated a lot, but I’ve never experienced it or seen it in person. Just because something is repeated by reddit over and over doesn’t make it true. What I usually find is that both exist, usually with some interplay between the two. Maybe I’m just not a part of the communities that have gotten rid of their forum structure.
I hate ads as much as any other lemmy user, but quests are pretty non-invasive. I guess it’s annoying to close the popup once every so often. Nitro is still massively overpriced, but seems to only have features a normal user wouldn’t need.
I don’t like look forward to it getting worse, but I used Skype for some time after it became nearly unusable, so discord is still way better.
I’ve seen it happen with multiple platforms I used to enjoy. I happily paid for nitro for 5 years and recently stopped paying when I started getting popup ads.