Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.
savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoOh hey, you’re totally right, that’s crazy. I use Beeper (hosted matrix setup) to aggregate my chats and I guess I’ve always been using that to search across all servers without realizing. Fully thought the DM search would also search across servers.
DMs are definitely also another case though - you can’t easily DM people on another server if that requires you to log into another server.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That’s true about DM, however DMs are not a core use-case for discord-like services. It’s the group/voice chats etc. I could see a workaround like lemmy does, where if you want to DM a user in another server, you might be able to do it through your fediverse instance (i.e. a DM simply has your fediverse instance DM their fediverse instance), but I’m sure there can be more elegant things like. However DMs by themselves are a weird thing by themselves, so much so, that even bluesky had to bolt DMs on-top and outside of their protocol.
pseudonaut@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I disagree. DMs are most certainly a core use-case. I would argue that it’s a part and parcel feature for any group/voice chat app. DMs have been a standard feature in every major voice/video app, group or otherwise, for over 25 years.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The point of it being a core feature, is that people are not going to Discord for its DM capabilities.