this will make it even harder to reverse engineer. rip

I guarantee this will be vibecoded.

Sorry for the first you'll want to look at the settings "Open links in app" in your browser, and "Default Apps" on your phone. You should be able to tell if it is set to always open those links in an app. For the other I'm talking about this setting on Firefox, will probably look different in another browser

This allows you to make a sort-of-app out of your browsers view of the website.

Can't follow you ??

Most websites will aggressively push their app to you if they recognize that you are viewing their site on mobile. Not all websites require the app and may be viewed by web browser, but I'm not sure if discord is one of them.

Very no. Discord is fully controlled by one central entity ("Discord Inc.") which is actively enshittifying the fuck out of it every way they can. Fediverse means... basically the opposite of all that: decentralized/distributed such that anyone can run their own instance of the fully-FOSS software that runs the application without connecting to any other instances or with federation with other instances if they want.

Discord is basically as not-fediverse as a thing can get.

That's pretty odd. Looks like Feddit is on Piefed, and I was able to open join links in browser. Maybe check your browser settings for opening links in app and add an exclusion for Piefed links. Alternatively you can try and save the browser view as an app shortcut which might solve your issue. The whole "Add app to home screen" which should just give you an app icon to open the web version essentially

When l'm trying to join a community, l'm being automatically routed to the playstore.

No it's not and you can use the discord network by logging in at their website.

No discord to my knowledge doesn't implement ActivityPub in any way, and so isn't part of the fediverse. Next question depends on your meaning with app. You don't need a separated app, a web browser will do fine, but you do need some form of browser

The core stuff (chat, calls, sharing media) is really all most people actually need day to day.

Yeah I think I get that too. Simpler tools tend to feel more “calm” to use. Modern apps often feel like they’re competing for your attention all the time.

I've kinda always felt that way. Things peaked at Ventrilo and IRC for me. Then again the best designed website is https://www.rockauto.com/ in my book too, so I probably just like simple interfaces.

getting?

it's ALWAYS been too much... let me share gifs/pictures/text, and voicecall friends.

the rest, is just extra noise/distractions.

Officially they don't always require a phone number to register an account. Unfortunately the reality is that they may as well require it for all new accounts now, I can't remember the last time I heard of someone registering without one.

I guess it’s a good thing my account is old enough that I didn’t have to provide a phone number?

It's for targeted advertising. Try a better platform.

Matrix.org

Vencord and custom CSS

Rip the bandaid, find and support another platform.

Building out your plan B for another platform, tbh.

Only gonna get worse from here! :)

Sometimes Discord doesn't like VPNs if you're using one

Are you logging in on a web browser? Or the desktop app?

Fuck Discord!!!

Oh, so you can tap the button, scan fingerprint/passcode, and just pay? That's convient enough for slot 2 I guess (not enough for me to stwtch back though)