superglue comments on At least there is 'Note to Self'

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I have a handful of friends and family that did actually switch, but I still have a few stubborn friends on Discord that do t see the point. Just waiting for Discord to fuck up badly enough...

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[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago

I have 1 friend who I talk to exclusively over discord DMs.

The server went down for about 6 hours when we were chatting and he made a signal account.

Then he deleted it after the outage 😭

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[–] Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca [S] 8 points 2 months ago

Discord not even letting me to creare an account. The OTP never get generated. And i believe that's for good.

Many open-source developers also effectively using discord as a communication medium.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Discord is already a haven for groomers, zoosadists, and more. Not sure what levels of "fucking up" they'd need to do, to get normies to bail.

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[–] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

For as long as they type a message, hit send, and the other person receives, they'll keep on using it no matter what Users are stubborn to change, they only really do when they can't do the basic thing

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[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

They dont know about any of that stuff and they don't wander in the public spaces of discord. I think forcing the ID on all users will do the trick. They just haven't enforced it yet.

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[–] Ougie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So one's friends become zoosadists - whatever that is - if they're chatting via discord?

The argument that there's creeps using a platform is moot if you're using it to communicate with your friends. Which is what people do. It's so weird to me, like, the same can be said about Signal etc etc but nooooo, there it's only the good ones chatting. Get outta here with this shit.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

So one’s friends become zoosadists - whatever that is - if they’re chatting via discord?

I honestly have no idea how you deduced that this was what I was saying.

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[–] Ougie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

How do I put this, the fact that a platform may be used by unsavory characters in some specific capacity and context does not affect normal people who use it to communicate with friends - which is what chat apps were designed to do. People use discord to talk to their friends while playing games. They use WhatsApp, signal, telegram and so on to text with friends. At least that's the primary usage. Now if one were to venture out into the wild and start engaging with strange animal fuckers in obscure channels etc, that is something that doesn't play into the average user experience.