It’s been years, and there’s only now a handful of programs that offer some of Discord’s best features. If we had open source alternatives back then, I certainly would have entertained them.
Comment on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
pory@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThe main reason is that if you switch from Plex to Emby you’re going from paid licenseware (fully enshittified) to paid licenseware (not fully enshittified yet). It’s like when everyone finally dropped Skype and moved to… Discord. Which hey it’s closed source and owned by venture capital, but it doesn’t suck yet!!! And now in 2026, Discord is what Discord is.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
pory@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well exactly. The VC projects get to accelerate their “right now” factor with money. Money that doesn’t need to make a return on investment for another x years. That means, before those products start their hostile monetization campaigns, they will be unequivocally the best in their field by any metric other than “libre as in freedom”.
Look at Twitter. Did people that jumped ship jump to the relatively mature but “fiddly” federated platforms, or did they jump to “it’s literally Twitter but without ads and grok” in Bluesky?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean…I’m on both of those, but I know I can use Bluesky as a linear feed like Mastodon, and as long as that still works with no algorithm, it solves my Twitter problem. I think the cycle of software innovation is that you have the first proprietary tool that solves a problem, like MS Office or 3DSMax, and then the most important parts of those programs are solved in open source software after a lag, like LibreOffice or Blender. Discord would always be replaced in time.
moodwrench@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But I haven’t paid anything to Emby (I don’t need the code behind that key) and without cloud, I could continue using this version forever and they can’t enshitify it