Discprd sucks, but there is no good alternative.
This just pointedly isn’t true. There are good alternatives, there’s just not a single drop-in replacement for the role that Discord fills.
For the most obvious drop-in replacement, you have Stoat, previously called Revolt. It’s basically Discord but self-hosted. For text and voice chat you have things like Matrix or Signal, both having the added bonus of being end-to-end encrypted so your shit is private. There’s also the old-school options like Mumble and IRC.
For forums there’s Discourse, or if you want to go traditional phpbb is still around.
The big problem is that not all your friends are gathered on a single platform. This was always the case before Discord, and will be the case again after Discord. Be the change. Encourage people to switch away, and move your communities. Prune those that you don’t need any more.
There is no alternative because the software is irrelevant. The communities are what’s good about it, and the alternatives don’t have that.
Sure, if you want to start a chatroom with some friends, you can do a lot better than discord, but if you want what used to be discussion boards on specific topics, you’re stuck with discord as that’s where everyone went.
Again, be the difference. I harass companies over mail because I don’t want to fucking use Discord to get project or order status updates.
“Thanks for the update. You know, it’d be really prudent to post this kind of thing on your website, or even send out updates via newsletter.”
Legit question: when has any company’s IPO led to improved anything for end users?
The best case i can think of is that most of the big tech that IPOd probally helped more users even if they over all quality didnt go up. Kind of hard to measure though. IPO give the company cash but at the trade of stakeholders.
Exactly every business that goes into market to be owned by finance hedge fund bros that use pensions as leverage and insider lobbying tactics to develop retail investor siphoning schemes become worse, because that’s how they make money
