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  • k_o_t
    22·
    4 years ago

    watching things deteriorate for discord and discord bootlickers being mad on /r/discordapp is going to be fun :)

    • Matheo_bis
      13·
      4 years ago

      the less fun part will be to convice millons to move to Matrix ot return to IRC

      • k_o_t
        6·
        4 years ago

        nobody has to, where could they go really? what alternative besides matrix is there? (i’m not sure, maybe there is, just that i’m not aware of it)

        • AgreeableLandscape
          63·
          4 years ago

          what alternative besides matrix is there?

          Realistically? Peplle will keep using Discord. Switching platforms involves a lot of friction.

          • k_o_t
            51·
            4 years ago

            i’m not really implying immediate mass migration, but i’m fully confident in m$'s ability to fuck it up :)

            • AgreeableLandscape
              5·
              4 years ago

              I’m not. I am, however, confident in Microshaft’s ability to make it just bad enough in the name of profit to make people who use it miserable, but not miserable enough to actually switch.

              • birokop
                2·
                4 years ago

                theres still a chance they dont fuck it up right?

        • Ratoeira547
          31·
          4 years ago

          Mumble is a good alternative for the audio communication and XMPP of course, both are easy to self-host.

        • disrooter
          32·
          4 years ago

          Telegram has voice chats now, it’s a no-profit and doesn’t use/sell users’ data

                • disrooter
                  2·
                  4 years ago

                  but it is not currently structured as a non-profit organization.

                  It is an ambiguous sentence. Maybe it meant they don’t accept donations, aren’t transparent etc? I wanted to check the source but it’s behind a paywall. Wikipedia shouldn’t really allow articles behind paywalls to be used as a source. However Telegram wrote in its FAQ that it is non-profit, that’s enough for me. How they bureaucratically pursue this goal is their business. If they violate their privacy policy they will be prosecuted. If they change it to exploit user data or to sell it, I will stop recommending Telegram.

  • Subversivo
    10·
    4 years ago

    MS is buying so many social platforms we can think they are trying to challenge Facebook.

    Waiting for the VS code integration to land to build a powerful walled garden.

      • SirLotsaLocks
        51·
        4 years ago

        what makes you say that? It would benefit them to keep it all to this client because they can implement whatever tracking they want and you wouldn’t have any choice. Most microsoft products don’t have apis for 3rd party apps that I know of. I would love to see it but I don’t think it’s going to happen.

  • fidibus@lemmy.161.social
    8·
    4 years ago

    lmao @ every tech company ever being bought by GAFAM.

    This is a chance for open source to be more innovative than them I believe.