Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing
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Don't worry, once it goes public it will get worse and easier to replace
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it has voice and video... though to be honest I've never used it.
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Its already unbearable with how much is gated behind Nitro. Its gonna drop off and quick once the IPO hits.
Search history will be the first thing to go, like Slack it'll be a pay thing and that's gonna be a big hit.
I miss IRC.
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FOSS alternative that looks and feels the same.
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reddit is just reposting X , and truth social posts for the political posts.
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and also the enforced heavy moderation, will silence crtiics in favor of the most "ad-revenue, traffic groups too" thats whats happening with reddit.
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MS(microsoft) admitted already AI isnt super profittable. thats because the customers being only other large corporations, and not the individual users(who does not care for AI in any form)
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Well, ever since stock buybacks were re-legalized and other safe guards that once incentivized the health of the company, not only quarterly share holder value. Publicly traded company wasn’t always synonymous with strip mining value. Reagan was an accelerant on that decay for sure.
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How far along is this? Last time I checked it out is was no where near ready.
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BetterDiscord + https://github.com/riolubruh/YABDP4Nitro
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IRC is still alive and well. I still use it to hang around when I'm using my tablet with Termux+weechat, and some projects are stubborn about not abandoning IRC.
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Dude i am so glad. Discord was always a cancer, i hope this will spell the beginning of the end of discord.
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It also has plenty of utility for non-information-storing purposes. It's more of a cultural issue than an issue with the tool.
Besides, wouldn't it take all the information there to its grave as well, making its death a net information loss? After all, information confined it is still information stored somewhere, just not as easily accessible directly from the Web.
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I mean, what's "ready" mean in this context? Voice and video are still being worked on. They're going for maximum compatibility so they have to reverse engineer the way Discord does things, so it's taking a while.
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And there goes another good company...
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It will still have the social platform inertia that keeps many people on Twitter despite wanting to leave. If enough of the other people you want to talk to are there, what good is leaving?
In the case of communities, it's even worse: you can possibly operate multiple platforms as an individual, but a community splitting its conversations across two platforms is now two communities. The best you can hope for is that most of the active members on the old (also) join the new and eventually bring their activity with them, but that relies on a lot of individual decisions.
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Information that cant be indexed by a search engine is completely worthless to anyone looking for answers. It might aswell not be there.
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I would be tempted to say that it will now turn to shit, but in Discord's case it was pretty shit already.
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Maybe the search engines should start crawling and indexing discord
