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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609

They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] Cethin 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Almost all of those issues are due to federation. Lemmy shares most of them. Considering that we're on Lemmy, I'd say it's mostly a non-issue for us. Maybe use something else for encryption-required communications, but other than that it sounds fine to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is a public forum, discord servers are usually for invite-only, more closed-off communities, and we're not talking about a lemmy replacement but rather how this is inadequate as a discord replacement.

[–] Cethin 6 points 4 months ago

That's true, but the vast majority of the issues aren't related to that. The majority of the issues in the article (if you read them you'd know) are about replication. They're about whether the timing of posts, deletions, bans, and things like that possibly not being replicated perfectly across all instances. Lemmy has the same issues, but I haven't noticed them causing problems yet. They would be even less of a problem in a private discord-like environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just because I use Lemmy doesn't mean I was able to convince anyone of my social circle to join (with lack of content as the primary reason). Building communities requires users and a lack of those is an issue with many FOSS projects.

[–] Cethin 2 points 4 months ago

That's true. Unrelated to the issues in the article, but it is something that makes it hard to switch over.