Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads
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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 told my sister she can use an adblock to block ads while she's browsing. She said "why would i want to do that, ads show me what to buy" she loves personalised ads and the idea that all her interests are being track so she can be served relevant ads.
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how good of an alternative is matrix to discord?
Not as feature rich, quite buggy, inherently more private but also less usable.
The above compounds when trying to get the non-techies to use it, because sometimes it doesn’t just work
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How in the hell has that app gone so far down? This must be a record in enshittification.
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Not as feature rich, quite buggy, inherently more private but also less usable.
The above compounds when trying to get the non-techies to use it, because sometimes it doesn’t just work
Started running a homeserver recently, trying to get non-techy friends to join, can confirm this is difficult (the main one right now being people using old software on their phones, one friend was running iOS 14 for crying out loud)
Once set up I find it OK as a user
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How in the hell has that app gone so far down? This must be a record in enshittification.
I warned my friends that Discord is looking to go public. Just wait, it's going to get a lot worse.
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I thought it was called capitalism.
They are the same thing.
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Because of the networking effect, people don’t leave.
Federation is strong specifically because of how it gets around the networking effect. You don't need a .world account to see content from it. That doesn't apply for Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube without shenanigans.
This notion that everyone’s just going to pick up and leave Lemmy
You don't need to leave lemmy. It takes 10 minutes to set up a new account somewhere else, with zero downsides.
If you control the main server, breaking federation is not a problem.
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Only option available is Matrix. It has its problems, but they're being worked on.
Right now it lacks the gaming/voice chat parts of discord - so for an OSS alternative for that part of discord specifically, there's Mumble.
For everything else, Matrix is a good alternative. Just be sure to pick a discord-like client. (E.g. Commet or Cinny)
I use Jitsi for my voip / screen share
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I'm waiting for the day we get the Black Mirror technology where the ad stops playing when you look away and doesn't start again until you look back at it, forcing you to watch the entire ad all the way through
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How do I bot this so I don't see the ads and get free nitro so ads are removed?
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how good of an alternative is matrix to discord?
I made a few friends switch earlier this year and for our use case it works
Minding we only need a text chat during the day for shitposts, cat GIFs, and the occasional "Gaming tonight ?" "Fuck yeah" "For the Emperor !"
Then we use it for voice chat during the gaming session
To be honest, I don't think we could have switch if they weren't a bit tech-savvy and willing to struggle a bit with the encryption at first (but now it's setted, it works with no issue)
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I use Jitsi for my voip / screen share
Works great if you don't want/need PTT.
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How in the hell has that app gone so far down? This must be a record in enshittification.
Mark my words, any free service that hosts images is on the cycle. I saw it happen to Reddit and Imgur
Promising to host everyone's data for free forever is a promise that only a devil at a crossroads can make
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I'm waiting for the day we get the Black Mirror technology where the ad stops playing when you look away and doesn't start again until you look back at it, forcing you to watch the entire ad all the way through
And the ad is like my dead mom selling me dick pills
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Not as feature rich, quite buggy, inherently more private but also less usable.
The above compounds when trying to get the non-techies to use it, because sometimes it doesn’t just work
Unfortunately, the official desktop app is essentially unusable.
Fractal is pretty good but less features.
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How in the hell has that app gone so far down? This must be a record in enshittification.
Well they changed CEOs a month ago
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I meant for video. The classic coturn connection is fine for voice - though I wish it had push to talk. 🥲
oooo yeah video is the one thing i have missing to have more or less feature parity with discord. wonder if theres gonna be like a coturn video type thing anytime soon
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how good of an alternative is matrix to discord?
Not great. It's missing discord features like screen sharing and voice rooms (only sort of has them through a third party app, Jitsi, but that experience is... not great).
It also has moderation issues, lacking tools needed to keep spam out and easily control it when it does get in.
I recently deleted my account because there was a spam wave sending out room invites to anti-trans named rooms, and there's no way to mass ignore, you have to click on every invite, click 'ignore' and wait like 15-30 seconds for the server to process.
Related to the above it has performance issues, a lot of UI actions wait for the server to respond, so just have a long delay to them making the user experience feel really crummy.
There are also a bunch of different client apps all with their own features, one will support X but not support Y and the other way around for another app, and there's no guide on what app to use so that's confusing.
Overall it feels like alpha or very early beta software, it works if you're willing to deal with a lot of headache.
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God, I just wish they'd add a fucking Push to Talk option to a client... Any client
Does it even have push to mute with a keybind? It feels like their voice/video chat is super feature bare lol
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The end is coming
