PieFedEpic’s Tim Sweeney Keeps Inventing Solutions To Problems That Are Already Solved
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Heard in Watch Wes Work short on youtube:
“The nice thing about standards, is that there are so many to choose from.”
People don’t realise discord is just another proprietary closed communication platform with back doors to monitor all your comms? An open standard that games connected to could potentially go a long way to break that pattern.
Mumble?
artyomFluxer
Fluxer is just Discord 2 and likely to go the same way. The website changed pretty quickly but there was an older version talking about monetization models and what was basically Nitro by another name.
If people are serious about wanting to ditch Discord, the answer is going back to decentralized systems, not replacing Discord with a nearly identical app that has the same vulnerability to the owners getting greedy.
anaValFluxer is open sourced under AGPL: https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer/blob/main/LICENSE
It is completely self-hostable: https://docs.fluxer.app/operator/get-started/
It is currently starting development on federation: https://fluxer.app/blog/mobile-clients-and-fluxer-v2#why-is-federation-taking-so-long
It is absolutely not just Discord 2. And while they do have a very aggressive monetization scheme (can’t set a banner with the free account) that’s just to cover the development and hosting costs and it should be easy to disable them as the app is open-source.
Cool. A federated Discord might be the easiest solution. If you’re gonna self host I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just use teamspeak, though.
So don’t use discord. Believe it or not we lived for thousands of years without it.
DudeImMacGyverSo, ActivityPub or XMPP?
Otherwise, the article reads like a corporate boot licking for discord and steam. So aggressive toward Tim Sweeney but for the wrong reasons. Pain to read
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Not defending Epic’s or Sweeney’s weird actions or takes as of late, but this article feels like it’s written by someone who seemingly only glances hyperbolic headlines.
The solutions do exists, but they’re not sustainable by any means. The article mentions Discord as a solution to the social problem of gaming, but it’s becoming increasingly obvious that a for profit organization having exclusive control over the solution is not sustainable in any means (see enshitification of Discord recently). Yes Epic Games is a for profit organization, but these solutions they are offering are open source (most MIT licensed codebases).
Saying that a solution already exists for a problem and pointing at a closed source product from a for profit enshitified corporation while ignoring the part of the problem is that the solution isn’t sustainable due to not being open source is just poor journalism.
Again, I’m not defending Epic Games or Tim Sweeney in general, but let’s not spin or twist words here or omit some key details to serve some agenda or hate campaign.
This guy is a hypocrite and an idiot.
You still get flash banged when grabbing the free games on epic. He has never really updated or improved that shit hole.
Lol the writer has no idea what they’re talking about.
Can relate - I’m kind of a DIY guy myself.