ISOmorph 18 points 3 years ago

At least you can access information on reddit from everywhere, and for the time being, without an account. Discord has the scumminess of reddit turned up to 11 and people love it.

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Bjoern_Tantau 13 points 3 years ago

I find it especially baffling when open source projects use it for communication.

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thatwill 16 points 3 years ago

The widespread use of Discord baffles me. It seems to be basically IRC with voice chat and no choice in servers. It's good for group voice chat with people you already know, but I can't see how it fits any other use case like being a replacement for a subreddit community.

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hydra 5 points 3 years ago

it's pretty much proprietary IRC with extra bloat...unless you use a client but then your account is in danger

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primaryuser 10 points 3 years ago

It's so bizarre to me how, in the wake of Reddit killing 3rd party apps, some people are running to Discord, which is infamously, actively hostile towards 3rd party apps, to the point of banning people for using them.

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jannis 3 points 3 years ago

The official discord app is way better than reddits app and ad-free.

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Rhabuko 8 points 3 years ago

Discord is already hard at work to undo itself.

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IanM32 4 points 3 years ago

It has been going rapidly downhill.

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ZeroNationality 7 points 3 years ago

I mean if you could point to anything remotely as easy to use and functional as discord then this joke makes way more sense.

All you need to do is take a look at the working versions of these apps (slack, teams, etc) at some of the main features to see how crap the competition really is.

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aeharding 3 points 3 years ago

https://app.element.io (Matrix) is still VC funded, but at least its underlying protocol is open source and you can self host

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bulbasaur 1 point 3 years ago

I had a terrible experience using matrix.

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Setarkus 3 points 3 years ago

Revolt would probably be my next choice. Seems promising so far

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hydra 6 points 3 years ago

While people still resist the Fediverse they will happily keep jumping from walled garden 1 to walled garden 2 because they lure them with convenience. But Discord is already starting to go to shit.

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fabian_drinks_milk 1 point 3 years ago

Have you've seen the username change? It is just wierd how things are going now. They are now slowly moving to having Twitter-like handles instead of the 4 number discriminator usernames, which means that you now have to claim your username and people are already starting to get spammed for their cool username. I just don't understand why.

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hydra 1 point 3 years ago

I'm still not allowed to choose usernames without the discriminator

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fabian_drinks_milk 2 points 3 years ago

It's supposed to roll out gradually based on when you've created your account. I also haven't had the chance yet and I signed up in 2021.

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hydra 1 point 3 years ago

I think it also priorizes Nitro users

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JustBrian7872 5 points 3 years ago

Let's create a discord "server"...

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demonen 2 points 3 years ago

Internally in Discord, it's called a "Guild" (i.e the API)

Users didn't care, and kept calling it a "server", so that terminology became the official one.

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mynona 3 points 3 years ago

Walled garden makes it sound like a place someone maintains for communal pleasure. Lobster trap makes me picture someone caged for sale. Delicious lobster.

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sussy_gussy 1 point 3 years ago

I am. Use Matrix or Revolt.

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