Amazing how quickly Discord went from "quirky upstart small client that took advantage of Skype's failures to become a chat client people not only wanted to use but wanted to support the growth thereof" to "too far gone with venture capitalists in their ears that they keep making mistake after mistake the same way MSN and Skype did on their way to their graves, seem unable or unwilling to understand why, and seriously needs a competitor to either give them a swift kick in the ass or face being buried right next to Skype and MSN"
This extra sucks for users because while a competitor would likely prolong this fate, it would only make communication even more annoying in the meantime.
"can you add me to the discord call?"
"no sorry we are on Matrix" (or whatever the next thing is called)
Having to switch between 15 chat/vc services is deeply annoying, and we are finally at a point where Discord is becoming popular enough to be a central communication system. Inevitably, this means it's time for it to be enshittified, which is already well underway.
idk man, I wish the EU would buy out Discord and turn it into a public service or something, I don't see another way out of this.
