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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609

They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (12 children)

slowly moving myself to https://revolt.chat/.

Its sad since I've been with discord since almost '15.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Oh cool there's an Android app, that's gonna make it so much easier to recommend!

Edit: I just read about how it's centralized and not encrypted, I'm not sure how this can become anything but Discord except open source and less popular. Matrix + Element seems to cover my use case for a project a bit better, I'll give that a try.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just tried it... it says "Running in Chrome". Seems to be a repackaged webapp.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

well that's no different than Discord already, so net zero change

running webapps in chrome or Electron containers simplifies a lot of development, i don't like their resource requirements or dependency on Chromium, but I do understand needing to streamline development so devs can work on more important backend stuff.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The difference is:

Discord: Electron app, 156 MB, works offline
Revolt: webapp, 635 kB, doesn't work offline

The "works offline" is not much of a bonus for a chat app, but you can access cached chats on Discord, while Revolt... just doesn't run.

There seem to be other clients for it, though. Haven't checked those out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

In theory PWAs can be configured to run offline, whether they're doing that I don't know.

The desktop app looks like it's electron though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I know, one of the best PWAs I've seen is Draw.io, fully usable offline, with both device and browser storage.

The Revolt's one however, even though delivered as a PWA, seems to be only the login page. If already logged in, it throws a "Network error." dialog. Haven't checked the desktop one.

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