Humam Sakhnini will replace him.
  • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    5 days ago

    Discord is just another social media site that has a whole lot of people fooled into thinking it’s not creating profiles on them for advertising. Gonna get real obvious real soon though.

    I guess thats OK for community dev teams and stuff - like it works well, users can come and accesa the faq or support and leave. But it can leave a walled garden of data in there if they want to move elsewhere later though.

    Larger issue is the people that share their whole lives there as a quasi-Facebook. That’s all getting hoovered up and sold to the highest bidder - alongside data like exactly what activity you do on your PC (processes running when and where for how long etc - Discord monitors a lot)

  • riodoro1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    546·
    5 days ago

    Discord ruined what was left of online forums and so it’s users now deserve the full force of enshittification. It was so easy to join, how come it’s this hard to leave?

    • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      It’s hard to leave because it’s easy to join, and because it has the critical mass of users. Simple as that. It takes a lot to get people to abandon their chats, their friends, their groups, and the years of built-up message history, for an app that likely has fewer users and fewer features.

      • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        I don’t want more apps, I want to return to monke early 2000s web forums.

        • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          Granted they’re not the growing and bustling places they used to be, but there are still both niche and “lifestyle” forums that are alive and stable. Other than this place, one of the latter is where I spend most of my online socializing time.

  • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    6 days ago

    Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.

    Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.

    • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      6 days ago

      Is it really bitter if IPO is successful? Citron and other cofounders likely setup to get a massive payout when it IPOs.

      Humam isn’t someone that will look after the company for many years. He is brought in to cook the books, and get it to an IPO.

      • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        What is success here? The few founders and VC get filthy rich as the larger population dumps their money into Discord stock while the users and teams with limited foresight, who’ve moved their communities to discord, suffer?

        I mean yeah I guess that’s the success Cory Doctorow warns us about again and again.

        But that’s not my definition of success.

        For context I’ve been on the receiving end of an IPO and the founders and investors made out like bandits while a fair number of employees were stuck holding the bags thanks to lock-ins, dilution and over priced shares.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    6 days ago

    I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.