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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Discord is an absolute piece of garbage, it's not a good messaging app, definitely not a good place to host a community (seriously, I don't understand why some communities saw Discord as an alternative after the Reddit API changes), and most importantly, it's spyware. The company doesn't have a business model and it was founded by a guy who is notorious for creating random shit that's not economically sustainable at all. I don't understand why anyone would use this shit. This video outlines everything that's wrong with Discord: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU

Switch to Revolt or Matrix

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is convincing other people to switch as well. There's no point in me using Matrix if all of the people I want to communicate with only want to use Discord.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

But hope this would be the last time we would need to do it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand why Revolt decided to reinvent the wheel and not use Matrix. They could've been a great alternative server and/or UI.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why don't you ask the Matrix team why they decided to re-invent XMPP and add a stupid HTTP API?

@onlinepersona
@netchami

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because they didn't reinvent xmpp, they reinvented Google Wave.

A lot of Matrix.org is inspired by what Wave could have been - although we are running late with threading (but some work is happening currently there). From our perspective, one of the biggest gaps was the lack of bridging in Wave to other existing comms interfaces (eg email) - as well as the quirky UX.

Arathorn on Feb 18, 2018 on HackerNews

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you, I did not know that!

Very interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Both XMPP and Matrix can be used for real-time messaging, but they are very different unerneath.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Sadly, can't get my server to make the jump. Doesn't help that Revolt is missing a few features and Matrix just... Doesn't work at all for the flow of the server

Right now a bridge bot does heavy lifting for when Discord does piss off enough users to cause everybody to jump over

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it's a good message app, it's how I stay in contact with the person I asked for commission artwork. So you are wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Good may mean different things for different people. Lemmy user base are mostly those who outside of pure practical usage look at how service treats users.