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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)

submitted 7 months ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609

They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

We need a Federated FOSS Discord alternative built to work with the activity pub protocol. I'm currently setting up an XMPP server, but I hope something like XMPP but works with activitypub gets made some day.

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

why activity pub? I don't think it is designed to do group chats.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's not designed for real-time communication at all. ActivityPub is fine for things where it takes a little bit of time to sync everything, but a chat that worked that way would feel very slow. XMPP is a better fit.