Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are

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• Whitebrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy wants you to know he thinks a lot about enshittification.

  You don’t say.

  With reports of an upcoming IPO and the news of his co-founder to hand leadership of the company over to a former Activision Blizzard executive, many Discord users are rightfully worried the platform is about to become, well, shit.

  I’m sorry, about to…? As if the developments of the last 2 years weren’t a downward spiral with the game integrations, ads and garbage UI redesigns one after the next? Alright then.

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  • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’re telling me that you don’t want UI elements randomly being moved around and redesigned as well as having more and more features that no one uses piled on until you can barely see the chat you were originally trying to have? Kids these days…

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    • BeN9o@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah but don’t you want nitro? buy some nitro! look its discounted! buy nitro! Still don’t want it? we’ll give you a free trial of nitro! Then you can buy nitro after you find out how great it is!! nitro??

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• recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Empty words. Their actions tell a different story.

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• autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wrong, this is a lie. Discord still fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not every single thing that’s non-FOSS is enshittified, sometimes things cost A Lot of money to develop and those involved deserve to be paid. A good example of such software is Arturia’s V Collection, a music/synthesiser program that requires access to original synths to recreate them. You own your license and can deregister it and sell your key to someone else.

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    • Mechaguana@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Idk about the software, but when I was trying to apply for an internship over there the other intern told me that everything was basically manufactured in china when it came to hardware, while being a “made in home country” company

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    • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, there is nothing wrong with selling libre software.

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  • Aquila@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wat

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    • autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Never heard of web search?

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    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I believe they’d prefer it to be free and open source software (FOSS). I’m not completely familiar with the terminology they used, but that’s what I gathered.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I doubt that.

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• the_abecedarian@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well if he does anything to stop it, the board of directors will remove him.

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