It has to be one of those 'Lim~x~ as X approaches 0' Calculus things where X is the value of Discord Orbs.

This has been tried and tried again. The first time I remember seeing this was in the '90's where a "free" dial up ISP was trying this. NetZero maybe? Didn't work then, won't work now. They'll pay out so little it won't be worth it. Don't do it kids!

I close every popup, ad, and whatnot.
Read nothing, join my voice channel and talk with friends.

Discord has no features imo but voice and text. Everything else is useless and not needed. I will never give them a dime. No point.

Same. I just hope my friend group and by some extension the gaming community chooses something that won't fall into the same pitfal of closed source for profit organizations.

I hope the transition is towards matrix, or something like it.

pondering my uninstalling discord

You couldn't be more wrong.

People actually use the shop. they are spending $10-20 on a profile picture border. Now you are telling them that they can get them for "free"? You bet people will do it. Paid cosmetics have poisoned minds.

Hopefully Revolt (a Fediverse alternative to Discord) continues to improve and can completely take the place of Discord relatively soon.

Edit: it might only be FOSS, not federated. Still a promising project though.

Keep an eye on Revolt.

Is Revolt federated? I thought it was only FOSS

Is it open-source? Sounds like it does exactly what I want. Maybe I'll create a shadow group there and make the permanent jump once discord becomes untenable.

I don't think Revolt is Fediverse, afaik it's entirely centralized without plans for interop or federation
Please update me if I just didn't find the right reference

Oh maybe it is only FOSS.

Happy to have folks on e2ee matrix. It supports calling directly and group voice and video chat rooms quite well IMO.

Ehhhh I see people with Nitro-included cosmetics but not a lot that have the individually-purchased cosmetics. They exist, sure, but not even close to as many.

I mod a server with 40,000 users and I'm scrolling through the member list as I type this. Majority are either unsubbed accounts or they have the cheap basic Nitro. A lot of the cosmetics I am seeing are the free ones they've given away in recent events. Not many users have full Nitro and have their profiles all decked out with additional cosmetics.

It is open source. But from what I can tell the accounts are largely still hosted centrally, and it isnt federated in any way, which isn't great. Anybody can host an instance or server.

So ultimately it looks like a massive step up from Discord, with some small issues here and there.

Frequently Asked Questions - Revolt Documentation

(developers.revolt.chat)

documentation/docs/faq/instances.md at master · revoltchat/documentation

Moved to https://github.com/revoltchat/wiki. Contribute to revoltchat/documentation development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub (github.com)

"Here little monkey, get your food pellet!"

Users on reddit and lemmy always seem to think ad-based stuff is going to fail, and then it turns out people in the real world are depressingly accepting of ads. I would bet that this program is more likely to be expanded than canceled.

I'll check it out! Even without being federated, it's good to have a discord alternative. Matrix hasn't been what I need yet, unfortunately.

What genuinely confuses me is who they're finding to buy this shit to begin with.

I've seen so many of these failed "Join our club to score points to get tokens to buy virtual dongles that you can use to get into our more-elite clubs with better points and color tokens" schemes over the last ten years. It's like everyone wants to be Chuck-E-Cheese, nevermind that the company went bankrupt five years ago.

Even if all you care about is profit, it seems like this is an abysmal means of generating it.