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      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.

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        There are viable alteratives, but they aren’t making money and can’t advertise. Signal is a prime example, its an amazing platform with feature parity + more to Discord. Regardless of how well a platform is polished, you need users. People will use the shittiest platform ever if it has users (Twitter and Reddit come to mind).

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          Signal isn’t an alternative to Discord. I use both and they’re used very differently. Group movie watching for example is pretty easy on Discord.

          Digg had users and people jumped ship to Reddit because it was better.

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            You can screen share on signal so that argument makes absolutely no sense. and people down voting me without explaining why are probably too stubborn to switch away from discord.

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              That’s a feature that was implemented what, 1 or 2 years ago when Signal’s been around for a decade?

              You can’t possibly expect people to just jump from one social app to another that has such a relatively small user base and little familiarity. Entire Discord servers would have to jump ship and it would just be a nightmare for most people.

              What Discord prioritizes, Signal treats as an afterthought. Things like group chat, video chat, GIF usage, etc, Signal has never really prioritized.

              Discord’s mobile and PC apps both allow users to select GIFs within the application, whereas only Signal’s mobile app allows users to select GIFs within the application and Signal’s desktop app doesn’t allow for in-app GIF selection. If you’re reading this thinking "who tf cares about stupid stuff like that?", you’re completely missing the point because regular ass users care about stuff like that and they totally will say “fuck that” to an alternative if it doesn’t have features like this. Why doesn’t Signal incorporate in-app GIF selection for its desktop app? I’m sure it will be eventually implemented but dragging their heels like this for popular features and then having the nerve to ask "why aren’t people flocking to us instead of Discord/WhatsApp" is such an out of touch question to ask.

              When open source developers ask for feedback from regular users and their response to said feedback is"ACKSHUALLY it’s your fault, not the application’s fault", as it often is, it’s no surprise that their software never gains traction. It’s like a guy who wears cargo pants to a formal affair and then gets into an argument over attire because in his mind, cargo pants = more pockets = superior, completely oblivious to every other factor.

              Another thing-- Signal requires your phone number, Discord doesn’t. I know right away folks are going to rage about how Discord is the real privacy nightmare, not Signal. I don’t disagree, but the average user is just going to be more wary about being forced to give up their phone number in order to use Signal, even if the software now allows them to hide it.

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                Phone number point is stupid to bring up because most public discord servers turn on the setting that prevents you from speaking until you’ve verified a phone number, and I’d trust signal with my number over discord any day of the week. I never said general users should jump ship, I said that the reason they DONT is because other platform dont have the advertising budget, nor the user base to make users jump ship. People act like they give a shit about features but as soon as they can only talk to their friends because they all left for one platform, even if its “worse” because of the feature set, they WILL follow or be left out. Its why I originally joined Discord, I didn’t want to leave Skype but thats where everyone was going. I am now taking the other side where I refuse to use discord. I use Signal and Matrix. if people want to talk to me, they talk to me on there or not at all, and ykno what. Ive gotten 20+ people to switch.

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                  Discord doesn’t require a phone number to use it and there’s tons of servers that don’t require phone number verification. The vast majority of servers I’m in have no phone number requirement. Signal straight will not work without your phone number, in any capacity. I’m sure you’d trust Signal over Discord with your phone number any day of the week but as I said, that’s an irrelevant point because we’re talking about why people are more attracted to Discord over Signal. Slacks vs ugly cargo pants.

                  I said that the reason they DONT is because other platform dont have the advertising budget, nor the user base to make users jump ship.

                  Have you ever seen an ad for Discord? I haven’t see one before and I only know about it through word of mouth. There’s nothing stopping people from creating Signal groups for various hobbies and including a Signal link in their social media page.

                  Refusing to use Discord might be noble from a privacy/security point of view but from a broader perspective, you’re significantly limiting your social interactions and not because of the people but the app the people are using to communicate with. It’s like not using a phone at all because pretty much any phone is a privacy/security issue.

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        Yeah i also don’t think it’s dying hence the plea. But thing is, i don’t want alternative. I want this shit to die so i never want to see “join our discord” spammed absolutely everywhere when i want to get some info on anything.

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        I already use a different app for voice chat, and never used Discord’s voice chat feature.

        Discord is a modern alternative to IRC, Slack, or a more fully featured version of Matrix. I never considered it for the voice chat feature.

        People always bring up voice chat alternatives, which don’t replace Discord at all, because voice chat is a tiny unimportant feature of Discord that I wouldn’t notice if they removed.

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    Maybe they should just delete their data every month. Holding 1 20mb file or 2 10mb files aren’t much different

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    Well that didn’t last very long. It was 8 MB for like six years and then it just went to 25 MB maybe a year ago and now we’re back down to 10 MB.

    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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        It might have only even been like six months. It was in the little change log pop up during one of the updates at some point

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          I am using png. Level 0 compression tho and in 4k (3840*2160), sometimes even 4k + 2*1440p (2560*1440), but it’s already too large with just my main 4k monitor.

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              Yes. But in theory it’s still a performance hit, and as I have enough local storage (and typically use services with high limits), and I’m too lazy to change grims config just for discord, I never changed it and used Vencord intead.

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                  Because even though it saves over 29 MB, it also takes more than 20 times as long. And that’s just on my laptop, 1920x1080 + 2*1680x1050. On my PC it’s even worse.

                  I have thousands of GB of high speed storage, Gigabit internet, but only a Ryzen 5 2600 and a i5-1145G7.

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              Because it was never a problem. It’s a little bit faster for encoding and decoding, and no service ever had problems with the file size. Especially not my selfhosted stuff. Every service, except discord. As I now have resorted to using Vencord or just uploading most media to Nextcloud, I don’t have that many issues with it anymore, anyway.

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                Because it was never a problem.

                But you literally started this thread because it’s a problem. And then you spent more time defending your bad choice on a Lemmy discussion than you will ever save in your entire life decompressing PNGs.

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                It’s a little bit faster for encoding and decoding

                On the other hand, the time spent uploading/downloading much smaller files probably more than makes up for that, although even that difference might get pretty small with modern internet connections.

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            PNG started out as ZIP(BMP) and hasn’t gotten that much better. Use JPEG. The pixels you lose are not worth crying about

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              I use 4k because I like seeing a lot of stuff at the same time in good quality.
              I make screenshots of my whole screen to share all the stuff in the highest detail.
              Using jpeg would result in literally unreadable pictures.

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              JPEG for graphics like screenshots is not very efficient. For stuff like that, png is simply superior. (But not with compression 0)

              PNG is not good for photos though.

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                why though? The graphics represented in the screen are already squashed and scaled, so you wouldn’t be preserving their quality in any case. If you’re worried about text, JPEG should still be able to handle it under high quality settings

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                  We can ask the same the other way around: why do you want to use jpg if it results in a bigger size and worse quality than png?

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              Or they could just compression for their PNGs. PNG is a lossless format so they’ll only lose a fraction of a second during creation.

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

      Hah. Hahaha. Hahahahahahaahahahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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        Just to be clear, I 100% think they are selling our data. What I meant was I’m surprised they’re concerned about the size of the uploads when they could just be selling the uploaded data.

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                I simply don’t trust any company that provides a “free” service and is owned by Tencent, who has a 35% stake in Discord.

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                  Neither do I, which is why I would love evidence to confirm my suspicions, so I can show it to others.

                  But I also try not to make claims that are merely suspicious, however likely.

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

      aren’t they doing it? but at least by looking at how much they like locking out people until they give out their phone number, I suspect they are not collecting it without having further use for it

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      They increased to 25 to encourage media uploads to train their own models with. They now have collected enough metrics to realize, most valuable content is below 10MB. Now they are optimizing. They won’t lose anything valuable to them and the users who are impacted might even buy Nitro now. Win-win for them

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      “by selling all our data to language learning models like everyone else is”

      I imagine China is using it for free since Tencent owns a 38% stake.

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    If Discord was open source, I actually would not mind paying a fee for it. Fixed or reccurring, ideally the former. But that’s never happening. And forget buying that Nitro thing.

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      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.

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        Just like YouTube. They need the ad revenue to keep all those videos saved to their servers. It’s only natural you watch a 30 second ad every 10 seconds. It isn’t enshittification because it’s a real thing that’s happening, and raw storage is expensive. They pay for it directly.

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        Except not, this is what social media is supposed to do, allow people to upload things to share. They’ve done perfectly well for all these years on it, it’s not some new crazy problem. It’s existing functionality they are removing, that’s on them.

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          Discord isn’t social media. What is with everyone just referring to every tech company product as “social media”!?

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            I use discord to keep up with what my friends are doing, look at pictures that they post, etc. We used to use Facebook for the same thing back when it was The Facebook and required a university email address and didn’t have ads. How is that not social media?

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          Discord isn’t a social media. With platforms like facebook, you’re still paying for all your storage, just not with money. There’s ads all over the platform, and all your content is data mined to be sold to advertisers. Discord doesn’t data mine (to my knowledge) OR run ads. Would you prefer a higher limit at the cost of having ads all over the interface? The AWS bill has to get paid somehow, nothing is free.

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        I’m a sys admin/devops engineer, and yes, storage is far more expensive then people realize.

        This is the very definition of enshittification.

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          It’s not enshittification because it literally doesn’t follow the second part of your own definition. Needing to change your offerings because your internal prices increase is normal business. Enshittification literally is from companies offering stuff to entice users and then they realize they have nothing else to offer to businesses, so they remove features in order to sell them to businesses or to increase ads.

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            This was my core point. I don’t consider a business raising prices or gating features as a direct result of those features increasing their cost as “enshittification”. Stickers being paid, custom emojis, etc, that doesn’t cost Discord anything to provide, making that paid is enshittification; But if the feature itself costs the business actual money to provide, does everyone just expect them to eat that cost forever, in a lot of cases for absolutely no revenue from the users?

            Calling out businesses for not giving stuff that costs them money away for free just, doesn’t fundamentally make sense to me. Why is it just expected of Discord that they pay to store all your large files? A lot of “freemium” services like GMail recoup some of that money by mining your email for data that it can sell to advertisers, or eating the cost in an attempt to lock you into an ecosystem where you’ll spend money. Storing files on Discord is neither of those things.

            Don’t get me wrong, a lot of services are enshittifying, and making their services worse so you spend more money with them— but adjusting your quotas and pricing to reflect your real world cost of business is not that. To frame it as though you are entitled to free compute and resources from companies that don’t owe you anything comes off as just that, entitled. The cloud isn’t free. If you want to use a service, you should pay for it if you can.

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    Storage (and transfer and processing) has only ever gotten cheaper, but okay.

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

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      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, they’re 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 pain users into paying enough to fully fund the service. Of course it won’t stop there…

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    I’m surprised they didn’t put a time limit on the storage since they are not a file hosting platform.

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      I know there’s been several news items regarding file changes to links within discord, like Link Expiration, file size increase for free users, and all i found from a quick search was this reddit post talking about how their file wasnt deleted, but the link directs to discord saying “This content is no longer available.”

      I don’t know how long it is, but to wether or not it was removed by discord, or file expired, im not sure

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        I find it weird that they upload content to their own servers even when you provide them with an external link.

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    They should’ve never increased the size to 25MB. Now everyone is mad they can’t upload files larger than 10MB, instead of being happy that Discord allows free file sharing up to 10MB.

    That’s why you need to keep free product features and small and useless as possible; people will happily take improvements but complain to hell and back if you accidentally overcommit.

    Meanwhile most Lemmy servers have an upload limit of what, a megabyte?

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      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.

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        Lemmy servers are radical open, everything short of your IP address is accessible over the activitypub protocol.

        They’re not selling it, it’s free.

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        Discord makes way more money off your data than it costs them to host

        Lol. Your data is worth maybe $5, maybe $10 if you discuss financial platforms often, there’s no way that’ll cover the costs of hosting media for years. Just watching or hosting a video stream every month will probably run you over the money your data is worth. Individual data is practically worthless, and aggregate data doesn’t sell for a lot when you divide the total worth by the amount of users covered.

        Discord is alive because of their premium subscription, their data sales are just a little bonus on top. Their own statistics claim 200 million active users per months with 600 million in revenue per year. Those $3 per user start to run real thin when you’re essentially running a free S3 server with 8MB blobs.

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          The point was not the amount of money they are making, the point is that regardless you are being sold for profit. Any platform that is ad-driven should be avoided if you want any form of privacy.

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            But Discord isn’t ad driven, it’s driven by their premium subscriptions and their weird store. I’m sure they sell message data to AI companies like every other messenger these days, but they’re not a messenger like Signal is; they’re a space to hang out and game.

            If anything, the exclusive deals mean your community posts only make it to fewer AI services. Publicly accessible places like Lemmy are scraped to death and share all manner of user behaviour by design.

            As long as you don’t try to replace Signal by Discord, I don’t really see the problem to be honest. I’d switch to Matrix once Element becomes faster and less buggy and has decent video streaming capabilities and some of Discord’s features, but with the way things are going that’ll take a couple of years.

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              https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/

              They definitely sell user data. There is no doubt in my mind about it. I think the idea that Signal can’t be used in the same way is down to the marketing, especially sense Discord is now trying to transition away from gaming https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/discord-is-pivoting-away-from-games-to-become-your-place-to-talk- Signal literally has the same features + more than discord. You dont have to reveal your phone number to strangers anymore. Usernames are there. 1k+ member group chats EXIST. (I’m in one for fight for the future), screen sharing exists in calls. Theres no reason to need discord unless thats just where everyone else is.

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                The ads Discord implements aren’t like the ads that track your every move online. This is basic product placement. I’m not even opposed to that as long as they keep it minimal and remove that shit from the paid subscriptions.

                Signal doesn’t have anything close to the Discord experience. It lacks basic interaction patterns like channels. Voice calls work completely differently from a conversation standpoint. I don’t think Signal even implements threads, if it does I’ve never been able to find them. The UI for managing things like emotes/sticker packs is a lot better, especially for communities.

                The there are the advanced features. Webhooks are used quite often for automation. Forums and discussion boards are used by larger communities. Roles and access control don’t exist in Signal because it doesn’t have a concept of communities.

                Discord is much closer to Slack and Teams and Mattermost than it is to Signal and Telegram and WhatsApp and iMessage. On the protocol level, all of that could be implemented by exchanging special messages between devices, but the only app Signal devs want you to use contain none of that. Signal does have stuff Discord doesn’t have, such as encryption and cruptocurrency built in, but neither seem to be dealbreakers for everyone else.

                You don’t need to use Discord, nor do you need to use Signal. I have Signal, but nobody else does. You don’t need to convince me, convince everyone else, because my Signal conversation list has been empty for months since I last reinstalled my custom ROM.

                I’m sure Signal can be used in the same way as Discord, in the way you can technically run a copy of Microsoft Word on the PlayStation if you stack enough hacks on top of each other. For the vast majority of the user base, that’s not going to happen.

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          Discord is one of the worst company in term of privacy, they sell all of your datas, messages… First to make profit and then send it to the Chinese government. Thx to offer to me 10MB 😁

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              They want people datas as much as US wants them to do mass surveillance. Surveillance is power and all govs wants power

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                  You should know that in this world most of the governments want to extand their “power” (in fact it’s the good world), by knowing all the stuffs that are happening in the world they gain some superior knowledge. Why do states are willing to do mass surveillance, to use security cameras, etc… It’s not to have more “citizens” but to gain more power

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            I agree, but the argument here is “why won’t they let you upload more data if they make money off of it”. My point is that it doesn’t apply here, because uploaded files is not the data that can make them money.

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    so many people left reddit and fled to discord. So sad. Discord was ALWAYS going to enshittify itself to death, but okay people.

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      If you know of any malware hosted by them you should report it too them.

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      A smaller size limit on what amounts to free file hosting isn’t exactly enshittification. Servers and hard drives aren’t free.

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        The process of enshitification is what I was referring to. Discord got super popular by providing users with lots of value for zero cost.

        Now, in order to increase profits, they are reducing the scope of features they offer, and increasing the cost of the features that remain.

        This will continue to slowly get worse, as users are more locked into Discord’s ecosystem and userbase, they will be further pressured to upgrade and pay more money for less stuff.

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        Servers and hard drives aren’t free.

        Uhoh, the widdle baby poopy pants corporation can’t handle doing their job. Maybe they can just get the fuck out of the way and let the real adults host our own shit?

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    I am fortunate enough to know how to set up VMs and use Linux, so I run my own IRC server with a web interface (TheLounge). I can set the upload limit to what I want and settled for 100MB. This way my friends and I are not at the mercy of some proprietary software.

    I do pay for a dedicated server that I also use to host my games’ servers and also a mumble server, but it’s so worth it, just to have control over our stuff.