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Stop Doing Discord
(beehaw.org)
Repost from @technomancy@icosahedron.website
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Stop doing Discord
- capitalists were not supposed to own your community
- Years of hanging out yet no real-world use found for sending your private data to be sold to advertisers
- Wanted to leak private data anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that; it was called "turning off ublock origin"
- "Yes please search our chat archive for answers to your question. it will certainly remain up forever and not get deleted when the shareholders realize it's not profitable" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Look at what discord admins have been demanding your respect for all this time:
- task manager screenshot, discord using 97% of CPU
- discord making too many automated requests and getting throttled
- crash screenshot
"3rd-party client? lifetime ban"
They have played us for absolute fools
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I recently was setting up Synapse on my NAS, and installed Element, which had a login I'd previously used on the main Matrix server. I stared at my nearly-empty window looking for anything that might guide me to get some information, find some channels... SOMETHING.
On Discord, once I'm on a server, I immediately have channels. And there's a list of servers along the left side that I've joined.
AFAICT, you have to search for chat rooms yourself (or have links from elsewhere, I imagine?).
And while that's not hard, it's very much indirect and inconvenient.
If I convince someone to join me over on a Matrix chat server and they make an account and then all they see is an empty chat with a "Look for rooms" button, that's a lot of work to get started.
Also, I don't see any way to have specific communities to join which come with a set of rooms already, which is one of the biggest benefits IMO of Discord -- the sense of a "community" of discussions.
And it may be that these things do all exist already; but the fact that I don't just see them and can use them out the gate without research... that's a major hurdle to ask people to overcome for most users.