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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 75 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Can't wait for the day Discord backstabs everyone and people decide to get the fuck away from it. I seriously can't stand having to search past troubleshooting messages, it's a fucking mess, almost unusable. Whoever uses Discord as a Forum seriously needs a full force punch in the mouth.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Discord can and sometimes does monitor your chats.

    Source: CEO himself said that, in a hearing

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Discord can

    Well that's pretty obvious.

    and sometimes does monitor your chats.

    Probably, although why would they? More likely they'll just data mine everything an sell it on for AI learning program to nom nom on.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well that's no better than searching IRC logs, which are something folks have absolutely done in the past. I still haven't figured out why folks like discord so much though.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People like it cause when it first came out, it was considerably better than other popular voice chat software available for PC games at the time, like TeamSpeak and Ventrillo. But most importantly: it was free, unlike those other two. So people flocked to it and it blew up big, leading us to where we are today.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Can’t wait for the day Discord backstabs everyone and people decide to get the fuck away from it.

    I can’t wait either, then maybe all the communities that disappeared into discord that I feel unable to actually feel like I am a genuine member of and connect with anymore because I am not part of the conversations on discord will go somewhere where I can be a part of them again.

    sigh

    FUCK DISCORD

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