They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.

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    we probably need to build it ourselves.

    A federated, decentralized system that you can either self-host or join the servers of others, even better if we can offer to donate bandwidth, hosting, and processing power to servers we join in order to distribute the operational strain.

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      3 months ago

      Maybe you want to take a look at Spacebar, a FOSS Discord reimplementation with its own client and server for self-hosting in development

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        Discord clearly feels comfortable enough to begin enshitification. Feels like anything related to it has a short lifespan. Like third party apps for reddit and the api fiasco.