My experience is: no one cares. They don’t care about privacy, they don’t care about having all of their personal information sold to advertisers and AI companies, they don’t care about Discord’s incessant popups and fake notifications and they don’t care that the user experience gets gradually and perpetually worse.
Thats goes for all the Reddit users as well. They cared enough to stage a site-wide protest for checks notes 3 days, and they cared enough to say “fuck Spez” 50948209 times, but not enough to just leave the platform.
Every time I bring it up people laugh and tell me how weird and confusing it is and they say “but there’s no activity there” without realizing that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
What Elon did is expose the fact that you can abuse and exploit your users all you want but the vast majority won’t leave, no matter what. Other platforms have taken note.
you can abuse and exploit your users all you want but the vast majority won’t leave, no matter what.
Digital feudalism. And people are allowing the same thing to happen to them with democracy. Imo they deserve what they get 🤷♀️
What Elon did is expose the fact that you can abuse and exploit your users all you want but the vast majority won’t leave, no matter what. Other platforms have taken note.
Sad but true.
Lemmy is not a good alternative to discord though.
For what discord is supposed to be, no
For what discord keeps being used for even though it shouldn’t be because of NUMEROUS problems with it, yes yes it is
can you give an example? what’s a circumstance where discord shouldn’t be used?
Used as a forum. It’s supposed to be for communication, not as a forum or for storing documentation.
Software projects that don’t want to use one of the normal hosting sites. I’ve seen this far too often where the only link for a download or documentation is just a discord link.
Most times I see this with “fan projects” like video game mods and remakes
Agree, but on the other hand there seems to be quite a few subs favoring Discord rather than Lemmy, so it seems like some people still consider them close enough.
