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With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit) (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Do you think that the fediverse has something to gain with the enshitfication of discord? Are there voice chat programs in the fediverse that can benefit from it?

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[-] Fake4000@lemmy.world 89 points 3 months ago

Why not promote matrix as a substitute?

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 3 months ago

It's unfortunately barely usable, the responsiveness and features of discord are unmatched, in my opinion

[-] rglullis@communick.news 32 points 3 months ago

It is not perfect, but it has been usable for quite a while. It's clocking already at tens of millions of active users per month, so it's not like all these people are just suffering around and not chatting and talking with their groups.

Also, unlike Reddit, it does not need to have a strong migration from all the long tail of niche communities. There are bridges already, so even if just, e.g, 5% of the discord base moves to it, it will be already enough to jumpstart a significant shift.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

I would love an alternative that works just as seemlessly yeah!

The strength of Discord is its numerous partnerships with YouTube, Twitch, Patreon etc, making it trivial to gather paying supporters around a streamer or a video creator, attributing roles and perks automatically. I manage the patron community of a Minecraft gamer on YouTube and automatically sync the access to a community Minecraft server for people with a certain pledge on third part platforms, this would never work in the open source world, unfortunately

[-] rglullis@communick.news 15 points 3 months ago

Do you mean exclusive/tiered access to certain rooms only for subscribers?

If you are telling me that such a thing doesn't exist for Matrix already, you just gave me a perfect thing to offer on communick

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

That's very cool I'll check it out :)

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[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

How do the bridges work? Do they need to be set up by the community, or do they just work?

[-] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 3 months ago

They need to be setup by the homeserver, i.e by the admin of the "instance".

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[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't say barely usable, but it does have a long way to go before it could be a replacement for discord, that's true

[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 27 points 3 months ago

No screen sharing or even video calls iirc. Soo many people use Discord to watch stuff with their friends or to play games with their friends. Matrix is more of a irc replacement imo it doesnt have any gaming focused features and the Forums on discord are nice too

[-] Blaze@dormi.zone 13 points 3 months ago

Matrix video call support is still in beta IIRC? https://call.element.io/

[-] rglullis@communick.news 10 points 3 months ago

Works with Jitsi just fine...

[-] Blaze@dormi.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Good to know!

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[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

I haven't tried matrix yet. What's a good instance I can create my community on and bridge with my discord? For gaming communities.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago

IMHO, the best thing people can do to help mass migrations is to build out Lemmy’s moderation and administration tools as fast as possible.

They’re not great right now, and it’s really hard for Lemmy to keep up with the noise, spam, and trolls that come with a bigger community.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 40 points 3 months ago

I fear it is like with WhatsApp : "But all my friends are on Discord so I have no choice!".

[-] testeronious@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

right, I forgot about this factor

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 months ago

Social pressure is a real thing. I wonder just how many people in the US have iphones because of that dumb blue-green bubble stuff.

[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The reality is there isn't an alternative that would be easy enough for non-tech people.

I am never getting my friends off of Discord because there is nothing else that is easy for them and has same features - texting, calling and desktop sharing with sound.

[-] flux@lemmyis.fun 22 points 3 months ago

Revolt.chat is quite similar to discord and open source. They do run a centralized server to make it easy for everyone to get onboard, but it can be self hosted as well.

That being said, I still don't use it because nobody else does, and that's the problem with all chat and social media apps.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago

Matrix is easy unless you try to do something complicated with it.

[-] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Fr I finally started using it and it's the simplest fuggin thing

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[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

The recent headlines saying "discord will be showing ads" is just intentionally misleading. No one even bothered to read the articles. They just saw the headline that agreed "discord bad" and didn't even question it.

Discord already has "ads" in different forms that are even more like ads than what those articles were talking about. They promote games and services as a "perk" for nitro. They also advertise all over for their paid stuff, like Nitro and profile decorations.

[-] Blaze@dormi.zone 7 points 3 months ago

I opened Discord yesterday, seems like now they even have lootboxes, what the heck

[-] asqapro@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

I’m not sure if you’re doing a bit, but that was an April Fools’ joke.

[-] Blaze@dormi.zone 10 points 3 months ago

You know what, they just seem so pushy lately about Nitro and stuff that I didn't even get the joke

[-] asqapro@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

That’s fair, I also fell for it originally. It was a pretty convincing prank, I really should be more suspicious on April 1st.

[-] NataliaTheDrowned2@kbin.run 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If anybody wants to build a federated Discord alternative, my suggestions:

Fork Revolt
Implement AP federation and encryption from Sup server and client

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 3 months ago

Revolt is so promising, except it's not federated. I tried spinning it up today and then realized it's local only...

Which then even on their main page they have a pleading asking us to not host instances because the base will become fractured. Which, is solved by federation.

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[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 months ago

Reddit was an easy switch for me because there wasn't a social cost to leaving. There's no way the discord communities I'm part of are switching, way too much hassle.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

I don't use Discord much, but apparently it works a lot more like IRC (real time discussion) than like Lemmy/SubLinks/PieFed (asynchronous discussion) or Mbin (asynchronous disc + microblogging).

If that's correct, perhaps it would be simply better to code a Fediverse alternative to Discord, and make sure that it's well integrated with Lemmy.

[-] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

How would a Discord-like application integrate with Lemmy? Are chat logs federated to posts in Lemmy? Do posts in Lemmy get federated to this other chat thing? Can you just sign into chat with your Lemmy username and that's it? Is it just a chatroom that's associated with a community?

I feel like people here are like "everything should be federated" but sometimes I don't really follow the thought process. I get it with Lemmy and Mastodon, but maybe someone could explain what a Federated Discord looks like.

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[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 10 points 3 months ago

I don't know where you've been, but Discord has been showing ads for a while now. If not for their own garbage they can barely deliver on, it's in app sponsored merch and discounts. usually for video games and such

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago

mostly matrix (mabye xmpp) will benefit

[-] HorreC@kbin.social 6 points 3 months ago

I still like guilded more then discord to start. So I wont have to move. But I wouldnt mind trying Matrix.

[-] NataliaTheDrowned2@kbin.run 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bro guilded is moderated by roblox admins

[-] HorreC@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago

well for feature set its better, and I have never seen any moderation from them at all. If you have more info let me know.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Discord isn't really applicable to the fediverse but that doesn't means that FOSS can't benefit. Are there good alternatives.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

I'm not convinced Lemmy-style Federation lends itself well to the Discord model.

Like, you could have individual servers running (or maybe a server that hosts many communities), and a client that connects to all your subscribed ones, but I don't think there's a lot of value in sharing that data out across many servers, or somehow mangling real-time voice into that model.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Same account different servers would mimic discord. So you have one app, but the communities or 'discord server' can be their own instance. If it's mimicking discord it will keep all the message boards private to users like discord, but it could still benefit from Lemmy/Mastodon integration. Many communities have a discord and a sub Reddit having the same account on both may be valuable to some people.

I don't know the state of voice and video calls in the fediverse, it seems to be the main benefit of discord. Otherwise discord is just a terrible closed version of forums/subreddit/communities.

[-] batman654987@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago

Open source projects will alvause be better than closed sorce ones. If tou are giving money for closed source program, better give that money to open source project and everything will be better..

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