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Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/support@lemmy.world
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This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won't tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole unavailable to the outside world and everything shared is a privacy nightmare. Posting this, pinning it here, and locking it is one of the biggest trolls possible. It pisses me off every time I log in. "Everyone else does it" is the excuse of idiots. Discord makes absolutely no sense to anyone that actually cares to look into it, read the user agreement, and ask sane questions about what they are doing.

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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

They monetize using nitro. Discord servers use multiple different servers based on location to host the actual chat services. I'm not an expert on the inner workings but it's actually rather complex and fascinating. If you don't like using discords clients then maybe try an open source alternative discord client, if nothing else it will give you insight into the back end and help you better understand what's going on behind the scenes. Technically using alternative discord clients goes against their TOS but considering your feelings on discord I doubt that will matter to you.

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

    try a different client

    technically it is against their TOS

    You can't be seriously suggesting this while also knowing it's against their TOS. It feels especially ironic giving the massive surge in Lemmy's popularity was over a proprietary backend blocking third party clients.

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

    That's what surprised me the most.

    Lemmy members using Discord feels like a vegetarian not eating chicken but enjoying beef.

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

    People use different platforms for different reasons.

    I personally use Lemmy because it's currently the best alternative to Reddit. I use Discord because it's the most popular instant messaging platform, and I haven't had issues with it. I'm currently looking for a replacement for Twitter/X as I'm not confident with the way that platform is headed.

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

    Newsflash, not everyone joined lemmy because of FOSS philosophy.

    Shocking, I know!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    The original crop was probably here mostly because of "FOSS" ideology.

    And the users from Reddit are here because a shitty company screwed them over using proprietary code that made it impossible for anybody to hold them accountableβ€” I.E. Because as annoying and toxic and oblivious as "FOSS" advocates can be a lot of the time, sometimes it turns out that they actually had a point.

    So, who am I missing?

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

    But then, why not stay on Reddit with a Revanced app?

    Why go through the hoops of using an emerging platform for a link aggregator, but not a chatroom platform?

    For me it's either both or none, which was what I expressed in the above comment.

    I love Lemmy to death, I post here a lot, but I still know that objectively, Reddit using a Revanced 3rd party client is better: more content, more people, better mod tools.

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

    After people left reddit as a statement against reddit's policies on 3rd party apps, Lemmy just so happened to be the next best solution.

    A chatroom platform like Discord is not a reddit replacement, and I do find absurd that some subreddit communities decided to move over there instead of just going to Lemmy.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing.

    I'm not talking about subreddits moving to Discorde, I'm talking about Lemmy instances/communities using Discord as a complementary chatroom while it's as centralised as Reddit while decentralised alternatives such as Matrix exist

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  • [+] -8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Then I guess someone should come up with a discord alternative............ No? Nobody?.... Anything at all?....

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

    matrix.org has existed for many years now. Federated and completely FOSS.

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