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Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/36840985

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[–] 28 points 10 months ago (16 children)

It's the best at what it does…

Locking data away from search engines so that unless you’re in that little fiefdom you don’t get the information.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago* (14 children)

    Probably that too, but specifically the ability to spin up a private space to communicate with people for things like video games. Anyone that's using it as their means of customer service is an idiot.

    Apparently I struck a chord with my post, so I'm curious what is better than discord, and free that made my statement controversial?

    Also, I don't see locking data from search engines as a bad thing. The fediverse isn't search engine searchable either and Google, bing, etc, don't natively have the right to index private data.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Also, I don’t see locking data from search engines as a bad thing. The fediverse isn’t search engine searchable either

    The fediverse not being searchable is one of the biggest flaws with it, and make it similarly ephemeral to Discord, except its actually worse because the sizes of communities are just in that goldilocks area of awfulness where there are echo chambers, and people are rude and toxic. Whatsmore, availability due to the small size is relatively mediocre.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    fediverse is search engine searchable. They're public webpages being crawled.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    In that individuals can be, and that its very difficult to actually do a broad search because content that might exist in one might not exist in another, and that the types of people to run them often dont want search engines indexing them

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    IRC for chat and mumble for voice.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    both of those are not remotely as feature rich or user-friendly as discord.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Maybe people are spoiled? How the shit did we run communities and shit in the past? Bring back forums

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Maybe we should remove the internet and all communicate through mail instead. Be for real people aren't going to switch to a worse solution for no reason

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Why are we on Lemmy then?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Because I like using it better than the alternatives. That is not the case for discord vs whatever else.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Valid, I'm here because fuck Reddit. I made a choice to use a more transparent and open service that has less features and less content because of that.

    Sometimes we gotta think about our wants and think are they really a need? Or can we get by with less till the alternatives can get better. Imagine all the discord premium money that could of paid foss devs to make something better.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Sometimes we gotta think about our wants and think are they really a need? Or can we get by with less till the alternatives can get better.

    It's not really that simple. I don't need to convince my entire friend group to switch to Lemmy in order to get some use out of it. Best I can do is convince people to use modded discord clients like vencord and aliucord for most nitro features instead of paying for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I agree, but there has to be a certain bar of usability for it to be a viable replacement, since you need to convince other people to use it as well. Matrix is the closest one for me, but it's not quite there yet.

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