Comment on FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?

• Skavau@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same reason the Fediverse does. Because a would-be piece of software can’t scale without it. If each instance is entirely disconnected, then you can’t interchange between different communities on them without new accounts. This depresses growth.

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  • ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Barring the single account, I want them entirely disconnected though. Discord had not suffered in growth because of a lack of interaction.

    Centralization is irrelevant for what users want outside of a niche. The average user doesn’t care.

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    • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why? You could always self-host a federated Discord alternative and not federate it with anywhere else if you wanted it like that. You can use it like that and others can utilise its federation functions. Why is Federation presumably desirable for you when it comes to Lemmy but not Discord?

      Federation is necessary here for long-term resistance to corporate greed and decline. It isn’t a selling point specifically for the individual user experience here.

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      • ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Snuck in an edit that touches some or your points. I’m not on Lemmy because of federation, that’s incidental. I’m here because it’s another option to explore. But I still use reddit, too, because the community is there.

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    • xz25@opensocial.at ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @Skavau @ieGod OK but you see how our goal is to make that stuff matter to users, right? Getting more users isn't the goal.

      I have never heard anyone complain that they have to choose an email provider.

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