Discord enshittification is well under way, just this week I have started seeing ads in the client just above the voice channel status in the bottom left. Cancelled my Nitro immediately, no point if they are going to shove ads in my face anyway.

Currently looking at alternatives, Revolt looks promising, and can be self hosted.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

[Matrix] is the most promising option right noe, having an ecosystem and eee

[–] pressurized@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Schildi Chat is probably the best client I have spotted, full voice and video chat functionality in browser. People do way less hemming and hawing about downloading an app if they've already been able to try it out in web - just like discord

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Schildi chat is a reskinned version of element, so if you don't like the look of element you can use schildichat

[–] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bullshit. Pics or it didn't happen. You might have seen a quest, where if you stream a specific game to your friends you get a free in-game item, but these are not advertisements.

Additionally, you can click on it and tell it to never show you any more quests.

Either that or you're bitching about discord telling you that it has added more voice channel mini games.

[–] Rookeh@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You might have seen a quest, where if you stream a specific game to your friends you get a free in-game item, but these are not advertisements.

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Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to put a product or service in the spotlight in hopes of drawing it attention from consumers

I have no interest in streaming "quested" games, and whatever deal Discord has done with the developer to encourage users to engage with such games (and by extension the game's microtransaction economy), and regardless of what they call it, is by definition an advertisement. If you can't see that, then you are an ad campaign exec's wet dream. Either that, or a troll.

[–] raptore39@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ironic that traditionally Nitro makes things happen faster, probably in this case as well

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? Genuine question, I'm loosely familiar with the the issues with Discord having it's growing issues with data and advertising but I assumed Nitro was the worst element.

[–] raptore39@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

The joke in my brain was that Nitro is fast tracking the enshittification of discord

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No need when you have free software Mumble + Murmur :)

[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't mumble hot garbage? My planet side outfit memes on it whenever it gets brought up.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Mumble is like a reliable Toyota Corolla. You will turn no heads, but it has all the features you would need for the task (encryption, room hierachies, ACL, machine-learning-enhanced noise canceling, positional audio, choice of method input like push-to-talk, mini UI overlay atop games), and does them efficiently.

…And like a Toyota Corolla, there’s probably a decent upgrade out there, but you might be compromising on more than you think. Want a car without the manufacturer tracking you or bloated, touch-screen navigation? Many ‘modern’ VoIP options, especially proprietary ones, are literally doing the latter.