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What's your opinion about Discord? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

In addition to this, all sorts of group chats, message boards, forums, etc, have now been locked behind this wall. Projects and communities that used to have an IRC or a forum are now almost exclusively located on Discord. It’s like Facebook in this way.

I agree. Even though Discord's privacy policy is nowhere near as bad as Facebook. But the fact that everything has moved to Discord thus creating a monopoly for business communication is very bad. I hope there are some viable and ethical competitions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Oh definitely.

It’s also just a shitty electron wrapper around a webpage, which I have Feelings^TM^ about.

I also dislike this as well from OP. I mean there is Matrix but it definitely doesn't have the widespread popularity and ubiquitous nature of Discord. Then also I remember seeing a post somewhere wondering if Matrix is E2EE (which I remember it saying mostly but I don't remember exactly where it was or possibly wasn't).

I would be open to moving my own Discord server off of Discord and onto something like Matrix but the problem is that so many people use Discord that they're going to look at my link collection and when they don't see Discord next to Twitter, Instagram, etc. they're not going to be able to connect with me. It goes back to that ubiquitous nature of Discord; a ton of people use it and know about it now, way beyond the gaming circles that you would expect to use Discord.

I don't know if there is an answer to this issue at the moment.