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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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.
I'm obsessed with this xkcd because it eloquently explains something I've been trying to explain to my techs (I'm a director of IT) and my more techy friends.
Its not that most people like the ads (although personalized ads are really nice), it's that most people legitimately don't give a shit. Nobody really cares that PC gaming is "better", or Linux is "better", or building your own PC is "better" except the turbo nerds like us (and yes, im including you kind reader as you are on Lemmy)
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Wel there goes my discord account. Bye you won’t be missed
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Oooh yeah, dust off the hotline auto clickers.
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how good of an alternative is matrix to discord?
I like it, personally, but I don't use voice chat.
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Oooh yeah, dust off the hotline auto clickers.
The lesson of Pay-To-Surf will keep being taught by reality until it gets taught in business school.
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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
Don't forget to tip your instance admins!
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Peter Sellis can take those Orbs and shove them up his Ass I don’t want this shit!
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Online software development life cycle in a nutshell:
Startup - Geeks are in charge and you're creating a cool communications platform.
Mature - Accountants are in charge and you're gamifying ad clicks. -
Wel there goes my discord account. Bye you won’t be missed
Realistically tho, until participation becomes mandatory you can ignore quests and orbs and just keep doing what you're doing.
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I don't know if you saw the news last month but Discord just replaced a founder with a former Activision-Blizzard exec as CEO.
Well that fucking sucks.
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Realistically tho, until participation becomes mandatory you can ignore quests and orbs and just keep doing what you're doing.
Nah, switching takes time. Better start now.
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What a funny coincidence that I've heard about this discord alternative in a post just a couple before this one in feed.
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It feels like literally the entire open source and games communities are on discord. Will they move too? I care about that even more than my DMs.
They were on IRC before and on a number of other chats systems before that.
They will move as soon as something better will come out, for various definitions of better -
Realistically tho, until participation becomes mandatory you can ignore quests and orbs and just keep doing what you're doing.
"please ponder your verification orb"
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americans LOVE enshittifications.
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discord orbs
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I admittedly haven't looked very hard for an alternative. But I fully expect to be forced to move elsewhere in the next year or two due to their increasingly belligerent chasing of profits.
If you're after text, there are a number of options. If you're after group voice, there are a number of options. You could mix and match both, but "where everyone else is" will also likely be a factor in that kind of decision.
If you want both together, then there's probably just Element (Matrix + voice)? Not sure of other options that aren't centralised, where you're the product, or otherwise at obvious risk of enshittifying. (And Element has the smell of the latter to me, but that's another topic).
I've prepared for Discord's inevitable "final straw" moment by setting up a Matrix room and maintaining a self-hosted Mumble server in Docker for my gaming buddies. It's worked when Discord has been down, so I know it works. Yet to convince them to test Element...
