Yea, I immediately stopped using it after the CEO’s horrifying speech at the “Protecting Children Online” hearing.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Discord is the antithesis to free web. Stop using it. I won’t join any community using discord.
Muffi@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Could you (or someone) elaborate on that first point there?
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
It’s a closed system owned by a single company. If you provide data or information there, the company owns the data, other people can’t find the data using search engines and they would need an account to access the data. Imagine the internet is owned by a single company and they could sell, change, censor, delete restrict access to or use the data in means you cannot predict.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
It’s a closed ecosystem. What else is there to say? Compare with IRC, Matrix or XMPP.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So, it’s the lack of admin rights? Inability to decide your own sitewide TOS, lack of privacy from Discord admins, possibility of getting shut down, that’s what they meant?
(I’m not familiar with those other platforms)
uin@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
None of those details really matter.
What matters for the point of this argument is the simple fact that Discord is owned by the company Discord Inc.
That includes all of the servers and everything on them.
Imagine if ALL OF THE INTERNET was owned by Google …
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
I started using Discord because Skype was pissing me off. Now, Discord starts to piss me off with their bullshit. I’m just too tired to move to yet another platform that will start sucking once it’s grown bigger. I hate this “social media” focus on every little fucking thing. This stupid “we are building a community” garbage should die.
Maybe it’s time for me to burn everything down and go live in the woods.
Wiz@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
You’ve touched on the cycle of enshittification. Step 1, everything is free and wonderful. Step 2: milk those customers for money.
The solution is to favor and support services which take capitalism out of the equation. It might cost a little bit, but I think a few small donations can go a long way.