Even a minority moving to more open platforms will make a huge difference because it will create enough network effects for those to be decent options, like happened with Lemmy. This is important because the enshittification of Discord is obviously only getting started, they aren’t even a corporation yet, should be clear by now how this goes and why complaining isn’t going to ultimately change their course.
People these days aren’t tied to discord to talk to their friends. People are tied to Discord because of projects who’s shameful creators are discord bros and that’s the only way to get support on their projects. Ignoring the current problem with Discord at hand, this is an awful way to get support because Discord is not searchable and the nature of chats means everything is very… linear.
They’ve added forum-like features so it’s not as bad as in the past anymore. But it’s still super annoying to use and I’d rather have support for stuff anywhere else… Except other instant messaging services.
Most people and most servers don’t use those features and even if they did they aren’t actual web forums, they’re a collection of chat rooms arranged like a forum in a server which can’t be seen without membership. Unlike forums which are in most cases publicly viewable.
I’m aware, there’s a few projects that I need to use, and currently unwilling to look for alternatives for, that sadly have their support on discord only.
But they at least use the features so digging for stuff is somewhat more possible, I still don’t get how anyone sane thinks it’s a good idea, maybe discord seemed like leds work? Idk…
yeah, im not saying you shouldn’t go to other platforms! i just think entirely deleting discord at this current point is probably unnecessary and not helpful enough for most people. doesnt mean you shouldnt also try other ones tho!
Even a minority moving to more open platforms will make a huge difference because it will create enough network effects for those to be decent options, like happened with Lemmy. This is important because the enshittification of Discord is obviously only getting started, they aren’t even a corporation yet, should be clear by now how this goes and why complaining isn’t going to ultimately change their course.
People these days aren’t tied to discord to talk to their friends. People are tied to Discord because of projects who’s shameful creators are discord bros and that’s the only way to get support on their projects. Ignoring the current problem with Discord at hand, this is an awful way to get support because Discord is not searchable and the nature of chats means everything is very… linear.
I do think there’s more responsibility here on people who are doing free work contributing to adding value to the platform
They’ve added forum-like features so it’s not as bad as in the past anymore. But it’s still super annoying to use and I’d rather have support for stuff anywhere else… Except other instant messaging services.
Most people and most servers don’t use those features and even if they did they aren’t actual web forums, they’re a collection of chat rooms arranged like a forum in a server which can’t be seen without membership. Unlike forums which are in most cases publicly viewable.
I’m aware, there’s a few projects that I need to use, and currently unwilling to look for alternatives for, that sadly have their support on discord only.
But they at least use the features so digging for stuff is somewhat more possible, I still don’t get how anyone sane thinks it’s a good idea, maybe discord seemed like leds work? Idk…
yeah, im not saying you shouldn’t go to other platforms! i just think entirely deleting discord at this current point is probably unnecessary and not helpful enough for most people. doesnt mean you shouldnt also try other ones tho!