Discord blocks 3rd-party apps. Discord is not libre software.
It sure would be nice if development communities would stop locking their content behind Discord.
So annoying when you run into an interesting project and you realise that the only documentation is a link to Discord.
Just makes a good setup for total data loss where there’s no documentation nor community to turn toward. As if whatever was made never existed. I’m concerned with all the forums that shuttered in the past years that moved 100% to discord and will soon probably have to reverse this trend.
wouldn’t discord communities be coming from irc?
Time is a flat circle. We’re going back to IRC, boys.
I knew you’d all be back!
/me slaps 1993_toyota_camry around a bit with a large trout
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Never left. Just slowed down :).
I loved writing scripts for mIRC!
Element is a great client for matrix. It functions similarly to Discord.
It works okay. It’s great for privacy but it is really rough around the edges. Especially for large servers.
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Yeah. There’s some stuff to setup to get it running but it’s not impossible.
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@lynny I wish it supported Custom emojiz
This is the main reason we use mattermost instead :/
Agreed
jokes on you i got overwhelmed by every channel being split into a gajillion chats anyway
Tbh I don’t mind proprietary apps, so long as the user experience is good.
I don’t mind the ui nudges to buy nitro - the server costs have to come from somewhere - but if discord starts seriously serving ads, I’m gone.
I’ve been excitedly following the matrix project for years, but I’m in a lot of unique discord servers that would never move short of catastrophe. The network effect is too strong to shake the apathetic. We’ll win the long game with matrix, but it might take a while.
Discord doesn’t really block 3rd party apps. Technically, they are against ToS, but unless you’re doing something bad, it’s seen as okay by the discord staff.
But yes, it’s quite the closed ecosystem obviously. There are no 3rd party clients that implement all features, mostly due to the fact that it’s all closed source.
Nah. Discord is the most accessible, if we’re talking about blind folks and accessibility. I tried using Element, and yikes!!! No. Cant read a single convo. In Discord, I can go back as far as necessary till I catch up. Tried other apps, too, and they all do the same thing.
How is the vision-impared accessibility with Lemmy? Obviously good enough that you’re using it but I’m curious how the experience is.
The Mlem app keeps crashing all of a sudden, so I hate that. And making a community is kinda strange. I get to the “create” button and when I press it, it says, “match the…” but I don’t know what the rest is cuz the screen reader stops.
Not sure if my comment went through, but the site is ok for replying to comments. The app, Mlem, is good for browsing communities except when it randomly crashes.
Thanks for replying, both comments came through! I’m not shocked that mlem is having some issues, since it’s in like the Apple version of early access. Thankfully, it seems like the community here so far are the kind of people who care more about accessibility than Reddit ever did.
Oh absolutely! I have contacted Reddit a few times and all they would say is that they think Reddit should be used by everyone, and they’re working on accessibility. Yet, when I update the app, it somehow gets worse! Clearly, they don’t care, or they’d have made the exzemption to third-party apps that focus on accessibility sooner, rather than when blind folks were banging on their door, wanting better.
If you want to stick with federated services, check out matrix clients like Element, Cinny, and Fluffychat.
I doubt people will switch until Discord does something too stupid, but it’s nice to know about the alternatives.
What like … Oh idk dropping the discriminator and forcing a new system that will encourage account selling/scamming?
I never got the problem with that. Change is bad, alright, fair enough, but who cares about the username thing? Go for username_1234 instead of username#1234. It’s not like everyone knew the correct magic numbers before the change.
apparently they didn’t actually remove the discriminator and instead just hid it whilst giving everyone #0
I would love to, but finding an alternative might be even harder than finding an alternative to reddit. I am registered to many alternatives, but unless the people I want to talk to such as my friends are there then it serves no purpose for me.
Don’t find them, make them! Make friends, make communities, make alternatives an option.
I don’t want new friends. That’s not what I’m looking for in a chat client.
Can be hard to migrate to Revolt or Matrix communication apps depend completely on the user. I see it the same as how not so many people migrated to Signal after realizing WhatsApp and Telegram are not really private.
I’d love to leave discord, but I know to many people that use it and will not budge on leaving. I am stuck with it.
So unless discord makes a very serious boneheaded mistake and double down on it like Reddit did… I don’t see many people leaving.
They were going too, but listened to the community instead. (Re selling discord)
I only ever joined Discord for friends. Leaving would mean losing all friends, not even a select bunch. They’re not moving and while some may care that it’s upsetting, it’s a collective bunch that needs convincing. Friends of friends of friends. People aren’t jumping ship for one person to also not have their other friends not jump ship.
Reddit is a community but doesn’t have the more casual chat that friends use (well they have it now, but it was never good).
Discord pretty much has to burn bridges like Reddit did before anyone moves.
We start by mentioning software freedom in everyday converations, in plain english, over the long term. We should not expect anything without creating its foundations.
Easier said than done when your communities are all on Discord. I would love foss, but I’m not ditching my friends for it
i dont have any reason to ditch discord, but I will be homing on FOSS and using the bots I can run for next to nothing to replicate my content out to the other spaces. The places I really care about Ill still stalk but going to make the home here.
Do we also have alternatives to Discord?
I don’t use Discord, but Revolt looks similar
https://revolt.chat/Others:
https://matrix.org/
https://mattermost.com/
https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchatTo add to these, albeit not entirely the same, there’s Zulip. I’ve not used it personally, but I love the thinking behind the design, where you have the classic channel style but then also threading so that you can better organize & follow conversations.
I believe Matrix is the closest alternative.
