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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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What decisions have impacted your ability to use the service? I'm not keen on all of the choices they've made, but they also don't negatively impact the way that discord serves me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There's been a lot of little things over the years, adding clutter and moving buttons around for no apparent reason. The usability is still pretty good overall, I avoid the community side mostly anyway nowadays and just use it to speak with friends. Most notably recently with the mobile app change, god that thing is the perfect example of shitty UX, luckily the old APKs still work.
I'd love people to move on to a more privacy respecting option, but getting people to move is an almost impossible task and the options arent all that great at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn't mind the mobile UI update, it had some kinks at first that I mostly think have been worked out. So some of these kinds of things will just be difference of taste.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't think having to swap sections on the app to use server and use messages will ever be a good change, the update added a lot of extra steps to find information. The original app worked like their desktop app, so it's natural to use either, whereas now it's completely different, crazy what was going through their heads with it (well money, trying to sell cosmetics).

But if you don't mind it, that's fair.