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?

  • @[email protected]English
    34•9 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•9 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

        • @[email protected]English
          1•9 months ago

          That’s good to know, i thought it was be some kind of exclusive deal between the two entities.

          Of course, convincing people to get off Discord when almost everyone already have an account, a desktop app and a phone app ready to go sounds like a hurdle, but with time and enough enshittification™ anything is possible!

    • TipponEnglish
      3•9 months ago

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