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[–] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I just finished setting up my matrix homeserver and got my friends to use Sable. So. Yeah, fuck discord and their AI "age estimation," their promises of "we don't store ids" before leaking tens of thousands of them, and their "our trusted partners are the best" and it's literally Palantir in a trench coat.

Fuck all of that. AND they're enshittifying with all the quests and ads. Discord has some real problems but violating everyone's privacy is not the solution. Hire more people, actually investigate, and listen to the community. Don't be a Roblox.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    i'll never understand how discord became the standard for gamers. Back in the day we used to use Teamspeak + IRC and that was great. Decentralised, low latency, etc. I still use teamspeak occasionally. Still works great. The discord app was just a mess from the very beginning. Resource hogging electron nightmare. Still everybody thought it was great. And now all sorts of communites, even open source and maker communities are on there. Makes 0 sense to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago*

    Yeah I hated it from the word go. It was always the poorest option. Everything about its UX makes me cringe. Even fucking slack by now Salesforce is somehow better.

    Every moment I deigned to use Discord I felt like there was friction between me and the people on the other end of the application. Like typing while wearing gloves and getting interrupted every time I wanted to do anything.

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