Comment on Reality of the Discord and its alternatives
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Good advice. I’d add that a good message to take from all the issues exposed with Discord is that people should treat it like a data and privacy-hostile service like Facebook and use it as little as possible.
Don’t share personal shit, don’t share shit at all if you don’t have to. Just use it for whatever you’ve deemed necessary like memes or game voice chat for your wide circle of gaming friends, not as some kind of social media replacement to post your life to.
msokiovt@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I don’t use it at all. My producer ditched them in 2020 after seeing the writing on the wall for enshittification out the wazoo like farts that stink up like Liquid Ass.
A good alternative for those into the Free Software realm is Nerimity, which takes features from Discord, Guilded (now defunct), and Stoat Chat, and makes it its own identity. It’s maintained by one guy, though there are contributors to the project. I have an account on there, but my producer (he goes by Sendo) is extremely active.