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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

submitted 8 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 123 points 8 months ago

i don't understand discord's popularity at all. it's so annoying to use

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 61 points 8 months ago

It started getting popular years ago and that's when me an my friends switched to it too (back when I didn't know shit about privacy). You gotta keep in mind the alternatives back then were Skype, which was meant for 1 to 1 calls, had shit audio quality and issues all the time and TeamSpeak, which was complicated because you needed a server (we were kids, we only knew what a server was from Minecraft) and had a text chat that was only a small part of the bottom of the window that was full of connected and disconnected messages, so I actually didn't even know you could write in that. TeamSpeak's interface also isn't exactly good-looking or very intuitive. Then came Discord, you could create a server for you and your friends for free, you saw who of your friends was online and playing what, you could see when someone was in a voice channel and could just join, you had multiple text chats where you could easily send a link or memes while playing and you could easily share your screen with the others. It was a major improvement over the other two. I know that it sucks from a privacy standpoint but there's good reasons why people started using it.

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 32 points 8 months ago

It was my replacement of Skype, which was leaning hard into its enshittification around that time.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago

Where discord never had to lean into it as it was born shit

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

But it can always get worse. When they run out of money, some of the stuff that used to be free will begin to cost you something.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 8 months ago

What? Skype is better than discord

[-] NateSwift@beehaw.org 13 points 8 months ago

Not when discord launched. Discord had far better audio quality, multiple text and voice channels, and some moderation tools. Skype was basically a group chat with a group call function

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Literally how

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

COVID got people used to video/audio communication, then the other platforms enshitified while discord remained as shit as they always were.

[-] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

Because that's where people are?

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

How familiar are you with IRC?

I was told by someone that IRC is kind of what discord is built on. Maybe the answer is someone in that relation, if what i was told is accurate or not

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 10 points 8 months ago

Discord copies a lot of concepts from IRC, like servers and threads are almost identical. But it isn't technically based on IRC. Maybe your friend mixed it up with Twitch chat which is actual IRC only slightly modified.