If you've ever tried hosting a web based solution you'll know exactly what i mean. The entirety of web hosting is a disaster. The entire mountain of web code is a nightmare, and the collection of website based frameworks do nothing more than burn electricity and man hours to create a fucking button on a screen.

as for discord, i haven't puzzled that one out yet, i don't understand. Probably lazy developers and the community aspect, it's a forum, but free, and worse. And now you can shitpost with random people you don't even know!

Personally, i believe that enshittifcation is an inevitability. You put somebody in a room with something, and when you take them out, that thing will somehow have gotten more complex, and thus probably worse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Discord, at one point, was better than a lot of other app on the market, and they were one of the first where you could just create an account and join any group, for free.

It became the standard, and now we're stuck with that shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

eventually people are going to have to wisen up to the VC funding strategy. It's not going to last forever, i hope.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't hold your breath on the whole "wisening up to the VC funding" thing. People today still believe the moon landing was somehow faked to own the libs or something silly like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

obviously but VC funding is predicated on very slimy concepts and it's pretty easy for the broad market forces to adapt away from it, as we see with current VC projects. We just need to somehow deal with that problem. That's the hard part though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In an ideal world yes, but we've learned nothing from the Dotcom bubble, or the 2008 housing bubble.

If there is money to be made, history will repeat itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

this is true, but for some reason i am rather optimistic about the future of this particular venture, idk why.

[–] throbbing_banjo 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn't discord just shittier, proprietary IRC? I'm only on it because my Linux distro's dev uses it for communication for some reason, but from what I can tell, it's just a locked-down IRC client you can buy emojis and shit on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

it's IRC but if it had all the features, and was monetized. It has a lot more features from what i understand, but aside from that it's basically just a VOIP communication platform with video sharing. IDK why there aren't any significant alternatives like we have with mumble tho.

[–] ampersandrew 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's also got great VOIP functionality. And it's been a hot minute since I've used IRC, but you can automate tons of things in Discord around things like user roles. I play an old fighting game that has no ranked system, and all of that functionality, including running weekly tournaments, is handled by a Discord bot that runs on a Raspberri Pi.