• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    ah yes, the age old tale of “the internet sucks and people are stupid”

    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.

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      1 month ago

      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

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          1 month ago

          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.

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          1 month ago

          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.

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      1 month ago

      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.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month 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.