I never understood why everyone moved to discord. Regardless of this, it actually just sucks and is hard to use. Discord really gives me hope that the fediverse will succeed, just because the UI sucks so fucking much.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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Everyone talking about alternatives like Revolt or Mumble does not realize how big of a deal that actually is.
Exactly, I can go to discord and create a new server with a few clicks. Even as a somewhat tech savvy person I am not that confident about setting up a server, securing it properly, making it scalable for large amount of users, handling data storage and backups and all that.
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Oh yeah sure, this would be cool and all if they didn't screw 99% of their users out of their usernames first.
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Meh, I couldn't care less. Never used anything but the basic features, and if anyone wants to throw money at them, that's their choice.
As long as I'm not rate limited when using the regular chat in the free tier, I'm good.
The issue is that once they start heading down that path, they will probably start enshittifying the experience for non-paying users.