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?

  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    This will be an unpopular opinion here, but Discord is worth paying for and I do. Obviously, everyone’s usage will differ, but I use it for video and voice chat for several hours a week and I can count on one hand the number of hours that have been disrupted by discord service outage. That kind of value is worth paying for imho.

    • Dran@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I support your position in principle, but canceled my own nitro when they did the android app redesign. It went from really snappy (respecting system animation scale settings) to completely ignoring them. It feels like molasses compared to every other phone app that operates at the system set 0.25 animation scale.

      They also completely broke foldable support, and if your device changes aspect ratios inside a chat, you have to restart your client to get it to behave correctly again.

      The enshittification is real and I am voting with my wallet.

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        7 months ago

        Wow that has not been my experience thankfully, but I can definitely understand being upset by that, especially the fold stuff.

        I advocate for voting with your wallet.