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Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I'm on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can't find a clear "winner".

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's true about DM, however DMs are not a core use-case for discord-like services. It's the group/voice chats etc. I could see a workaround like lemmy does, where if you want to DM a user in another server, you might be able to do it through your fediverse instance (i.e. a DM simply has your fediverse instance DM their fediverse instance), but I'm sure there can be more elegant things like. However DMs by themselves are a weird thing by themselves, so much so, that even bluesky had to bolt DMs on-top and outside of their protocol.

[–] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I disagree. DMs are most certainly a core use-case. I would argue that it’s a part in parcel feature for any group/voice chat app. DMs have been a standard feature in every major voice/video app, group or otherwise, for over 25 years.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

The point of it being a core feature, is that people are not going to Discord for its DM capabilities.