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whodatdair, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

This whole “spend a ton of money to get your foothold, take over a market, then enshittify to bilk the users” shtik is getting very very old.

Rose,

That’s Jason Citron for you.

HobbitFoot,

That’s tech companies for you.

Why else would they make all this for free?

ized,

Might finally open the doors for viable alternatives. If Spacebar (former fosscord) garners tractions for example due to mismanagement by discord they might make the transition over from discord to an open source, decentralized alternative for the everyday discord user viable. Although I haven’t tried Matrix in a while… But convincing users to switch to a completely separate service is way more difficult.

Etterra, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

A former Activision CEO. Can you announce “hostility to our users” any louder, Discord?

Almacca, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO
@Almacca@aussie.zone avatar

Well, that’s that ruined then.

Yermaw, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

Gonna go ahead and show my ignorance here, but why is this such a bad thing?

antonim,

Public companies have to account for the shareholdres’ expectation of, well, making money (and more money, and more money, and growing the numbers as much as possible). Shareholders have some degree influence on how the company works, depending on how many shares they own, e.g. they can vote for the CEO. This usually leads to the company to introducing more aggressive ways of making money off the users/customers, enshittification, etc., as it has to satisfy the shareholders and not so much the original customers.

endeavor,

Cause things that make most money for shareholders make the worst experience for the end user.

Sina,

Shareholders want quick profits & they don’t care if the service shuts down in 10 years, or becomes largely unusable in 3-5.

Strayce, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

Well it was nice for a while there.

msage,

No it wasn’t

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

That sucks

SplashJackson, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

Lol IRC knockoff

Fiivemacs, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

Sounds like a good time to reinstall ventrilo

Boomkop3,

Adding that to my list, I was looking at element (matrix), revolt and fosscord

otter,

I assume that one was a joke, Ventrilo looks very out of date

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventrilo

Revolt is nice though. Once they finish upgrading the app, it would be an easy switch

I didn’t know about Fosscord (now called Spacebar it seems), it looks cool github.com/spacebarchat

Spacebar is a free, opensource selfhostable discord-compatible chat, voice and video platform.

  • Discord-compatible (Use all your custom clients/bots with minimal changes)
  • Selfhostable (Server)
  • Open Source (GitHub Organization)
  • Configurable (Configure every aspect and limits to your needs)
  • Decentralized (no abuse of power and doesn’t have a single point of failure)
  • Extendable (secure and cross-platform plugin system)
  • Themeable (cross-platform theme system with design editor)
  • Secure (publicly audited and hosted FOSS software for transparent foundation in terms of security)
joelfromaus,
@joelfromaus@aussie.zone avatar

Spacebar looks to be exactly what I’ve been looking for! Unfortunately, according to their FAQ the voice and video features aren’t implemented yet but here’s hoping that someone comes on-board to help set it up 🤞definitely an easy decision for a self hosted Discord alternative if that comes to fruition!

mooncake,
@mooncake@lemm.ee avatar

Ventrilo is what everyone used like 20 years ago it’s the OG of course it’s outdated

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

Fosscord changed to “spacebar” a while back. If you want a more Discord-like experience, try the Cinny or Comet Matrix client. And on mobile the SchildiNext Chat client. Although I really can’t recommend Matrix as a replacement at all.

Boomkop3,

I just want an experience my friends aren’t too stumped by. I’ll give them a look! Thank you!

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

Matrix authentication process is confusing and annoying. If your friends aren’t technical, they’re going to have a bad time.

Boomkop3,

Ye, it is. I liked it but I don’t think many will. A non-paranoid mode or service for matrix would be nice

millie,

Do those have push to talk?

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

Uhhhh I’m not sure, I only use the text functions

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

Mumble is where it’s at.

Badabinski,

"Get off vent, or I'll have you bent."

I wish those stupid videos weren't the first thing my brain goes for when I see the word "Ventrilo."

Fiivemacs,

I immediately go to vent pranks from like 17 years ago where they recorded people’s voices in public chats, then played it back to them and cause some amazing confusion

‘found a ring in there last night…dropped your pants?’

youtu.be/b5AkIfgioA4

JohnEdwa,

4 STRENGTH 4 STAMINA LEATHER BELT! AAAH OOORHG!

the_q,

MANY WHELPS! LEFT SIDE!

SweetCitrusBuzz, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

[sarcasm] Who could have ever seen it coming? [/sarcasm]

Honestly, the writing was on the wall for a long time, it had no clear business model and was a mess. It was always going to go this way and I tried pointing out that it was a bad platform but nobody either cared or believed me. Whelp, looks like I was a Cassandra yet again.

Hope Open Source people can make something to fill the gap, there really is nothing else (yet). Matrix really doesn’t have the features and that which it does have is often bad UX and doesn’t work everywhere. Not seen anything else which will fill the gap and I’ve been looking but I guess nobody thought discord would go down, go this way, or just don’t really know how to make something that would fill the gap, or didn’t want to.

smokingpistol, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

Better buy some stock. I kick myself for not buying Reddit stock before it went public

BoulevardBlvd, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

How the fuck are blizzard execs still getting fucking jobs?!?!! Jesus Christ people, could you find a worse person to run the company?

LucidNightmare,

Probably the point, honestly. If they lose money from it, at least they made it worse for the cattle who stuck with it!

dangling_cat,

Because he “has experience managing a public company” and in his portfolio only focuses on cherry-picked KPIs and no mention of any negatives at all.

I hate that our society encourages failing up and instead of punishment because of poor management skills and decisions, they do mass layoffs and give themselves fat bonuses because of “cost savings”.

Frankly, if a company fails, they will ruin other companies; it’s never their fault because of “complicated reasons”.

Maeve, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

I was recently asked to chat on discord. Add this to a host of other reasons I declined.

KingThrillgore, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Womp womp

Glide, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

God fucking dammit.

JaymesRS, do gaming w Discord confirms it's moving toward 'becoming a public company' as it hires a former Activision executive as its new CEO

Everyone loves Activision and what they’ve done for gaming. There no way this could go wrong.

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