Comment on The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse

infyrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• okiokbar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Discord is a centralised, proprietary service, sup would be a fediverse app. Discord is better than Sup just like Reddit is better than Lemmy.

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  • infyrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So?

    Sup is a lazy name and I’ve no use for something. Not sure why it’s such a problem for people to mass downvote me over. I don’t really jump into something so readily just because a handful of people have done it. I’ve already stated my reasons and I’m sticking to it. I’m not going to use something under the basis of “some people have done it!”. Plus some reasons have been stated by other people here over Sup. If I’m reading about how some dude who made it, has a bit of some skepticism towards them, then it makes me skeptical and makes me not want to use it.

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    • okiokbar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m not disagreeing with you. You’re saying that the fediverse produces badly designed and branded services that mirror existing apps with massive user bases, that won’t be great until a lot of users migrate over. None of that is wrong! It’s why Lemmy is a mess that constantly breaks, and Reddit is still way more useful, even if most people here hate it.

      It’s just that most Lemmy users care enough about decentralisation to ignore those product downsides, in the hope that they it can be overcome over time. With a messaging product, that’s even easier. You can just install it and wait until other users join - network effects are ’much more limited than with eg Lemmy.

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