Welcome to the beginning of the end.
Great time to start looking for alternatives. Any suggestions?
Discord's IPO could happen in March
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip to gaming@beehaw.org
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/discords-ipo-could-happen-in-march/
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thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
testman@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Matrix seems like the one with most potential to develop into a 1:1 Discord alternative.
Then you have XMPP, Mattermost, RocketChat, whatever Revolt.chat renamed itself into, etc.Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
That is a spectacularly bad name, lol
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Matrix is stunningly unintuitive to use, sadly.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Depends what you use it for. I see people use it for group chats, video calls, and forums, all of which would have different replacements.
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Stoat (previously Revolt)
hdnclr@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Good riddance. I hate that so many communities moved from forums to using Discord. It’s such a ratty little pigeon hole for communications to go and get lost in forever. It’s a shitshow for anything other than instant, live messaging. And so many communities use it as their only real forum. The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord’s IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord’s IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.
That will be a glorious day!
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I would like to use now to remind the youth of today of the unending glories of IRC and we must return to it.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
No voice, video, or game streaming in IRC though
jtzl@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’m right there with you. I already hired a guy to make a WordPress plugin for it and also another guy to make an iPhone app. The former is done, the latter is nearly done. I’m adding a feature (as I am the product designer 😜) to do in-line images – IRC sorely needs that capability.
But yeah, both will be BSD, I think… Tho as I think this thru, I really don’t want to facilitate other end vitrification.🤔
Flamekebab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
If it helps kill the damn thing, excellent.
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Welp. If you didnt think it was starting to suck before
etherphon@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
It was a fun 5-6 years but I deleted my account and all my messages last year. That took a while even automated lol.
CameronDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Discord and IPO is like the knight running at the castle clip from Monty Python.
Constantly coming soon, but not arriving.
testman@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Until it is suddenly there, while you are unprepared to do anything about it.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
“Hey …”
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Edging?
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
We can only hope
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Fucking shit
HotDog7@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
How exactly can they make Discord more shit than it already is?
Banzai51@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
There goes the neighborhood.
DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This is why I don’t use it often.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Aah yes, the IPO… The first step towards enshittification.
30p87@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
No, the first step begins before, as the revenue must be as high as possible before the IPO. That’s what happened with Fuckit too.
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
… y’all mean it’s going to become even more enshittified?
hesh@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
They’ve made many steps already