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Brace yourself for Discord to get worse: Reports swirl that the company is in talks with bankers about opening itself up to shareholders (www.pcgamer.com)

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't get the hate... It's a solid free product. I can't recall it ever going down unlike every commercial product I pay for at work. It has granular access controls, plethora of capabilities through integrations and bots. Yes, it's not FOSS. Okay.. is that a requirement for any and everything? Wtf is people's problem with it? I sold to their trust and safety team and they were the best humans I ever met. I use it for tons of personal projects, have made friends all over the world.. it's more like early internet vibes than here tbh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Privacy of my data, for one. I've had lots of conversations about things like trade and sale of used items, or just plain meetups (they've got my address in many PMs with friends). They've got my conversations and opinions about TV and viewing habits. They've got intimate conversations and vulnerability about mental health. The addition of AI already makes me nervous as F as an artist, and I've shared my art on there before. It has data about my gender identity and sexuality in conversations I would never want shareholders, in this political climate, to use against me.

I wish I could wipe all my data from discord, but i doubt deleting it would do that. And I don't want to lose my communities. I know some of the responsibility is on me for being so open on a communication service, but seriously? When it's privately owned you at least had some semblance of an idea of what to expect, and it originally was for gamers. That aesthetic, while expanded to every day chat, still had a layer of fun and usability that I am just afraid is going to disappear for whatever shareholders want, and shareholders are many many liabilities wrapped up in ideologies that can be bought.

I'm tired.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This is just a guess, I might have some availability bias (or whatever it's called, not gonna bother looking it up), but I think a lot of the hate stems from how inaccessible content in Discord is without having access to the server or a Discord account. It's not indexed by search engines. So many projects use it (because it's so easy to make a server and get it going) and post documentation, issues, etc. exclusively there.

The Lemmy community is not very diverse yet. There are a lot of tech enthusiasts, FLOSS enthusiasts, privacy enthusiasts, and leftists. Most of these groups of people have reasons to dislike Discord. Tech folks hate it because of what I said above. FLOSS enthusiasts hate it because it's not FLOSS. Privacy enthusiasts hate it because it's not end to end encrypted. Leftists hate it because it's it's a company.

So while everything you're saying is true, I think it's that most of the types of people who use Lemmy have various reasons to dislike it.