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I hear people are doing a surprise-pikachu about Discord's new ad push?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/discord-heightens-ad-focus-by-introducing-video-ads-to-mobile-apps-in-june/
Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 
Nobody saw that coming! 
Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.
Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."
But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.
So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 
@rysiek besides being proprietary, it really lacks for knowledge sharing. Clearly it wasn't built for it. Slack (also proprietary) at least has proper search and threads.
@rysiek@mstdn.social@oilheap Slack is also shit for knowledge sharing. People need to stop using Slack as a documentation tool.
Actually, people need to stop using Slack, fulls top. *sigh*
@rysiek fully agree. Less terrible than Discord though, which is setting the bar pretty low. 