As Discord forces in more adverts and paid customization towards becoming a public company the CEO and Co-Founder, Jason Citron, has announced they're stepping down as CEO.
  • vaguerant@fedia.io
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    12 days ago

    “All right, everybody. I know there’s been a sexism problem here at Discord, and I’m here to change that. If we really work hard and power through, I truly believe that we can work our way up to the kinds of numbers I was able to achieve back at Activision Blizzard.”

    • nthavoc@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I picture him saying this while he hangs a picture up of Bill Cosby in the board room. Yes, that was a thing at Activision/Blizzard. Time to start finding a new platform. Peak enshitification achieved.

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
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    8 days ago

    Discord is like the dread pirate Roberts combined with a used car salesman. “I’ll probably kill you tomorrow, you should buy nitro”

  • Baguette@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Discord is never going to be profitable lmao

    It can be a loss leader for microsoft, but at the end of the day, discord will always lose money. The operational cost of discord is way too high

    This change just means more enshittification like with every ceo change.

    Honestly they should just go full on points shops for spending money on xbox, like steam. Give out points to use for customization. That way they could at least make some incentive to use xbox and probably boost sales.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      But why? People just want to talk and chat. The technology has been around for ages! Let users host their own servers

      • Baguette@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 days ago

        You just made me look it up and apparently they canceled it when I heard about it

        So nvm discord is doomed LOL They’re purely running on vc money and sooner or later this company will explode