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Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’ve lost a lot of my rose tint for discord, right around the arbitration clause thing, but I can’t deny that it’s convenient. Chat, streaming to friends, popping up a new server for whatever project or group, VC for playing games together. There’s platforms that do all of these things better, but few that do all of them decently well.

Of course, it’s a privacy nightmare and I stick to IRC for anything I wouldn’t feel comfortable having linked to my identity, but I wouldn’t call people stupid for using it.

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turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Mostly I think its fine for all that.

But there’s a special circle of hell for projects that rely on it for “documentation”.

I get the temptation, I really do. But once you’re taking money or have more than a couple people involved and semi-organized you really need at least a small wiki/git-hub landing page with the basics.

I know documentation is a separate skillset and a lot of work in its own right but projects can also stagnate and die because there isn’t any.

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- Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh 1000% agree, having a discord for support is nice and all, but using it as a crutch in place of good documentation is a sin worthy of eternal damnation.
  
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  - laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Heck, even support is a bit of a pain since projects also like to use it as their issue tracker and want you to search for your issue before posting (which it’s awful for). GitHub is free or at least cheap depending on what you need and is way more searchable, as well as giving a place for wiki and a basic website
    
    Direct chat support, discord is fine, but beyond that, please use something actually designed for it
    
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HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How is Discord a privacy nightmare?

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- Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or maybe… How is discord any worse of a privacy nightmare than IRC? I love me some IRC, but it ain’t exactly a bastion of secrecy.
  
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  - EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    IRC clients don’t have loads of telemetry like Discord does. And IRC is a protocol instead of a platform, so there isn’t a single set of servers hosting and logging ALL conversations.
    
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    Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s fair, but IRC also tends to leak information about users to everybody. They’re maybe bad or slightly different ways, but frankly if you care about privacy that much you probably shouldn’t use either, at least not with additional protections.
    
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- MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Closed source software without end to end encryption and has access to all chats, voice and video calls. How can it not be a privacy nightmare. You have no idea what they collect and what they don’t.
  
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  - HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Don’t they claim that they can’t access your chat logs unless they get like reports and stuff?
    
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    lemmingtree@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I doubt that. If you do a gdpr request for your data, you’ll see how much they log about your activities. Obviously chats and VC activity, but also all the timestamps of what you play, session data over all time, etc.
    
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cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I haven’t used irc for years but isn’t it all plaintext unencrypted? And isnt your ip tied to it?

I’ve never looked into any of that for irc so maybe I’m way off base.

I do remember making my own fvwm config where an irssi irc terminal would slide out of the top of my screen with a hotkey and roll back up again. I was pretty proud of that.

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