Technology

As a forum-like community like Reddit it was always shit to begin with.

Was looking into some FOSS tools, the ones that say discord I automatically skip, imo it’s not future proof.

Honestly, I've always been surprised they allow any direct file transfers, instead of having to use external links.

Most Lemmy servers don't relentlessly track and sell everything you do though. Discord makes way more money off your data than it costs them to host.

I don’t see this as enshittification. It’s a real thing that’s happening, but raw storage is expensive. They pay for it directly. Unlike artificially limiting features that are “free” to them, this genuinely isn’t, it’s not even really super discounted for them on the backend. They’re likely just paying for a series of S3 buckets.

I’m surprised they aren’t offsetting the cost by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is

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And standard screenshots of my desktop are ~30mb, I was lucky to upload it lol

Sure it's getting cheaper, but is it getting cheaper faster than their need for it?

I've always expected their business model was unsustainable probably only able to manage through venture capital and growth.

There's hardly even any competition, their free product is substantial. Even fully funding a server is barely enough to cover a bare metal node.

This is just the introduction to cost savings. As they wade into market saturation, and still need to provide growth in numbers they'll need to pinch the free users into paying and pinch the paying users into paying enough to fully fund the service. Of course it won't stop there...

Edit: FFS dictation can't 'their' it's way out of a wet paper bag.

Yes but are your storage Managers doing anything? Going on long lunches and racking up bar tabs? Expensing escorts?

Until a viable alternative is presented, I doubt Discord will die anytime soon. Part of the problem is people have a hard time accepting that even if you make the best meal in town, you've gotta get people to step inside before they'll try it. To an extent, this does involve winning a popularity contest of sorts if you want Discord to die.

I think often times folks are torn between enjoying a space/app as is, and making compromises to attract a larger group. IMO Linux has the same issue and that's part of why die hard fanboys get so aggressively defensive when this is brought up.

It's the software equivalent of being the bitter "nice guy" that simultaneously wants to attract a girlfriend (users) but is kind of an asshole to women. You might think you don't stink but please wear deodorant.

I believe telegram manages that with severe upload and download speed limits, but Telegram has always been a bit shady, hasn't it? Who knows how they financially support all that.

Revolt I love, but there's no federation or anything, and I won't be able to get anyone to switch unless they could join many servers from mine