I started using Discord because Skype was pissing me off. Now, Discord starts to piss me off with their bullshit. I'm just too tired to move to yet another platform that will start sucking once it's grown bigger. I hate this "social media" focus on every little fucking thing. This stupid "we are building a community" garbage should die.

Maybe it's time for me to burn everything down and go live in the woods. I don't particularly resonate with people anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You've touched on the cycle of enshittification. Step 1, everything is free and wonderful. Step 2: milk those customers for money.

The solution is to favor and support services which take capitalism out of the equation. It might cost a little bit, but I think a few small donations can go a long way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yea, I immediately stopped using it after the CEO's horrifying speech at the "Protecting Children Online" hearing.

[–] morphballganon 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Could you (or someone) elaborate on that first point there?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's a closed system owned by a single company. If you provide data or information there, the company owns the data, other people can't find the data using search engines and they would need an account to access the data. Imagine the internet is owned by a single company and they could sell, change, censor, delete restrict access to or use the information in means you cannot predict.

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

It's a closed ecosystem. What else is there to say?~~Compare~~ Contrast with IRC, Matrix or XMPP.

[–] morphballganon 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So, it's the lack of admin rights? Inability to decide your own sitewide TOS, lack of privacy from Discord admins, possibility of getting shut down, that's what they meant?

(I'm not familiar with those other platforms)

[–] uin 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

None of those details really matter.

What matters for the point of this argument is the simple fact that Discord is owned by the company Discord Inc.

That includes all of the servers and everything on them.

Imagine if ALL OF THE INTERNET was owned by Google …

[–] morphballganon 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So the worry is of a surveillance state?

[–] Thirdborne 1 points 7 months ago

More than that. They own the content and relationships and can use them in ways you cannot predict. LLMs gobble up human produced content because we entrusted it to corporations. What hit hardest for me was when Facebook published a study where they found they could influence users attitude by prioritizing certain posts in their feeds.

Imagine it. Corporations owning your relationships and using them to get a profit out of you