With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit) - eviltoast

Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?

  • taaz@biglemmowski.win
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    7 months ago

    The reality is there isn’t an alternative that would be easy enough for non-tech people.

    I am never getting my friends off of Discord because there is nothing else that is easy for them and has same features - texting, calling and desktop sharing with sound.

    • flux@lemmyis.fun
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      7 months ago

      Revolt.chat is quite similar to discord and open source. They do run a centralized server to make it easy for everyone to get onboard, but it can be self hosted as well.

      That being said, I still don’t use it because nobody else does, and that’s the problem with all chat and social media apps.

    • kbal@fedia.io
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      7 months ago

      Matrix is easy unless you try to do something complicated with it.

      • Steal Wool@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        Fr I finally started using it and it’s the simplest fuggin thing