I'm sorting by new and somehow this showed up
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Same
Likewise...
Well its new to me
I remember when this happened with GitHub, #MoveToGitlab was a hashtag in response and I posted something like "I don't have to #MoveToGitlab because I already have Gitlab here on my server"
I have a verifiable history of saying "Fuck Discord" every time Discord does something shitty or shady, so I look forward to being able to say it again. Use IRC, Matrix, XMPP, anything that's libre and open and not a proprietary competitor
That does seem to be the only way right, otherwise the cycle just repeats
In the end, GitHub is still great, I don’t feel they destroyed it. Isn’t it ?
I don't even see this as a purely negative thing. Discord is already trash, Microsoft buying it means either
- They mess it up, like they do with almost everything, and its obscene dominance comes to an end, or
- Nothing.
There's even a part of me that could see them open sourcing it/parts of it, now that they "love open source". This would of course be a part of a calculated play to stifle the rise of alternatives like Matrix. We're already seeing a gross trend of developers using Discord as their project discussion platform, and it would be in Microsoft's interest to try to maximise this as much as possible, keeping them in a centralised walled-garden under their control.
get ready for 5 years of no major updates :dabs:
Then it suddenly stops working for most people, and gets replaced by something better that Microsoft then tries to buy too.