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    4 years ago

    watching things deteriorate for discord and discord bootlickers being mad on /r/discordapp is going to be fun :)

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        nobody has to, where could they go really? what alternative besides matrix is there? (i’m not sure, maybe there is, just that i’m not aware of it)

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          what alternative besides matrix is there?

          Realistically? Peplle will keep using Discord. Switching platforms involves a lot of friction.

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            i’m not really implying immediate mass migration, but i’m fully confident in m$'s ability to fuck it up :)

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              I’m not. I am, however, confident in Microshaft’s ability to make it just bad enough in the name of profit to make people who use it miserable, but not miserable enough to actually switch.

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          Mumble is a good alternative for the audio communication and XMPP of course, both are easy to self-host.

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    MS is buying so many social platforms we can think they are trying to challenge Facebook.

    Waiting for the VS code integration to land to build a powerful walled garden.

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      No, no this is good. I think Microsoft at least would have the decency to let people use third party clients. Even if ends up not being the case it can’t be worse then it is now.

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        what makes you say that? It would benefit them to keep it all to this client because they can implement whatever tracking they want and you wouldn’t have any choice. Most microsoft products don’t have apis for 3rd party apps that I know of. I would love to see it but I don’t think it’s going to happen.