This is not easy when everyone you know is already on Discord.
The network effect is active in full force here.
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gridleaf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can we please stop building everything around Discord? It’s like a web parallel to our own, except owned and operated by a single company, completely closed off from the rest of the web, unscrapeable, uncrawlable, unarchiveable, and borderline unsearchable. It has everything that is wrong with the web today.
HKayn@dormi.zone 7 months ago
spark947@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Its a good point. Eventually discord will find some way to enshittify, I am sure.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
They already have
spark947@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I guess that is what they are doing, but this particular change seems pretty reasonable to me. Discord can’t simultaneously be a chat application and a repository for all memes for all time.
Just goes to show that VC funded services are not sustainable infrastructure for anyone.
Salzkrebs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My university forces its students to use Discord for computer science. They even forced me to use my real name (otherwise they would’ve kicked me from the channel). It’s a privacy nightmare so I hope they will switch now since they were using it to host weekly exams.
markon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s so hard to delete anything on Discord it’s in the permanent record. It’s upsetting. I use it too, but it is a nightmare privacy wise and it has all sorts of consequences.
Salzkrebs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Since I live in the EU, it shouldn’t even be legal to force students into Discord. I really hate being that guy but if they do this shit again I will refuse.
italien@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Admittedly I really like Discord’s user interface. Love the servers that can be organized by channel and channel type, have permissions sets for different roles, etc. All that good shit. What I don’t like is the total control of one entity and lack of privacy. I’ve been looking at Matrix but it still has a ways to go before I could ever think of completely dropping Discord.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Slack was basically the same when I used it
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
I think at a minimum someone would need to create a semi automated client for Matrix that would have a better interface and then handle the technical changes and configuration automatically. Spaces can use used a “servers” but it involves creating rooms and then adding them and the process is complicated.
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nah Discord is like IRC on super-steroids.
You’re gimping yourself by holding this view.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
Discord is infinitely better then IRC except for the centralization.
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s better flat out. Centralization isn’t evil in an of itself. The dogma pushed in this comment section is hilarious.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
It creates a single point of failure if the administration ever goes bad.
The “server” nomenclature is also misleading. It’s not a big deal and I think it works pretty well for what it’s supposed to convey.
gndagreborn@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Amen
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
Technically someone could just make a headless browser and then scrape everything that way, Advancements in AI will make headless browsing easier and companies like Facebook won’t be able to block automation by changing the HTML multiple times per day.
Nobsi@feddit.de 7 months ago
What are you talking about?
It’s literally a chat app. If all discord servers die today, nothing of value will be lost.waitmarks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
unfortunately no, there are several communities where if i ask for some specific information, i am told to go onto the discord because there are guides and information there. specifically, i have noticed this a lot with mechanical keyboard communities, but i know it’s happening elsewhere too. I simply don’t understand it myself, trying to find something on these is like trying to find something in a twitch stream. it’s infuriating.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
So, so many modding projects live entirely on discord. I hate having to join a server just to download a single goddamn mod, and then you can’t find any info about them because google can’t index the discussions.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
Technically with headless browsing, nothing can’t be indexed. That is at least unless people start getting brain implant and then Big Tech gets to control everything you experience and there’s no analog gap where things can be copied.
ashok36@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I agree. It’s a handy chat app but it’s not a replacement for actual forums and, God forbid, an actual support page for a project.