Discord is reportedly in early talks for a potential IPO.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/technology/discord-ipo.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/technology/discord-ipo.html
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This will not end well
I've never subscribed though because I just felt my money would be used to shape up Discord into a sellable business
the thing is im cool with paying for a service like discord, they've just done it in such a cringe way.
anyways, watch it be bought by musk and turn into xcord or something :(
I have some friends who use it and they literally advertise with “Made in Europe, motherland of GDPR” 💀
UNIRONICALLY ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THAT HAS HAPPENED TO SOCIALIZING ONLINE (YES GOOD THINGS HAVE HAPPENED ON THERE BUT IT IS A FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED AND SHIT PLATFORM AND EVERYONE IS ON THERE AND THATS THE ISSUE)
How would this work for folks using the EPIC launcher?
i dream of it cuz steam deck discord is a pain
But not great from the comments I see.
Discord's previous "competition" was MSN Messager, IRC, private forums and even Teamspeak servers, certain online games and mmos, and even bloody Geosites pages.
But sure, let's just hate something because it's popular.
They had a games store, NFTs and currently has gen AI built into the client.
And look? No one boycotted it.
Because what's the alternative?
We all hate a monopoly, but only when it's popular to do so.
Thing is, Skype also had a de facto monopoly before Microsoft completely neutered it to fit their interests, so it's not impossible the same might happen again with Discord.
No one used Skype because it had terrible quality, kept dropping, and was easily abusable.
Try telling that revisionist crap to someone who wasn't there, next time, eh?
Wanna be rich?
Start coding one.
Openfeint was another thing that was dumped for money too, discord will become a graveyard of shit and it'll be squeezed for AI and everything else as it suffers.
Return the Internet to self hosting.
When a private company first sells shares of stock to the public, this process is known as an initial public offering (IPO).
The enshittification has been ongoing but when this goes through it's gonna become unusable.
Well, I was looking for a reason to get off of Discord and use an alternative.
Godamnit!
We had sci fi series like Farscape, Expanse, Fallout. Cancelled, cancelled, ??sweartogodbetternotbe??
We had sci fi games that were total busts from promises (looking at you Star Citizen but you're still at it so yay?)
Just AAAAAAAAA.
LET US HAVE ONE THING!
#Discord #enshittification
"AI" companies need natural data produced by humans to feed into their models and no longer can feed off web which is polluted by content produced by their LLMs.
The data gathered (not the platform) is worth something.
This ALWAYS happens.
Will look into alternatives, at least for personal servers.
The shareholder economy ruins EVERYTHING.
Oh sure they sometimes made money but their products suffered long term.
as with most things folks will stay on the ship until it sinks, jump to newer builds, new builds thinking it’ll be different, run into the same cycle bc “the system” etc etc
- censorship of allowed server-topics
- ads in the free account
- ads in low tier nitro
- AI buddies
This is literally the worst time, with some of the dark shit activist-investors are doing re DEI
(jic: people who invest hugely primarily to leverage their will)
But this is the fate of literally every platform and app- like a life cycle. They either die out or undergo enshitification until they too finally die out. Ex: MSN and Yahoo messengers