Discord Reportedly Reject Buy-Out from From Three Buyers Including Microsoft - Niche Gamer
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Discord have reportedly ended talks with three potential buyers, possibly including Microsoft, choosing to remain independent instead.
    • DessalinesA
      3·
      4 years ago

      Nothing’s changed really, considering discord already has a process logger, I don’t see how it can get much worse.

      • Metallinatus
        9·
        4 years ago

        But the buyout might have made it easier to push some people away from it. “Look what happened to Skype!”, etc etc.

    • AgreeableLandscape
      3·
      4 years ago

      Discord themselves have a pretty bad privacy track record AFAIK. Obviously not a raging dumpster fire like Microsoft, but still.

    • yeeper
      4·
      4 years ago

      Maybe they won’t sell it at all? But to be honest I do not know if their business model is sustainable enough to allow that option.

      • k_o_t
        5·
        4 years ago

        surveillance capitalism time 🤗

  • androidul
    3·
    4 years ago

    I thought they decided this way because they wanted to go the IPO way

    • talkinwhip
      2·
      4 years ago

      I am not as convinced that it is a golden goose. Stock markets are insane right now but I really doubt a publicly traded company can really survive with a single chat app (which can easily be copied btw). Same issue that zoom has. You either make some smart purchases or you die in the next ~2 years. Either way - would be interesting to see what happens and discuss it on matrix and the fediverse.