• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    41·
    3 hours ago

    Now what?

    I was very disappointed that the rest of this paragraph didn’t go in a completely different direction

  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    Is Fluxer still trying to get federation going? We need it. It would make it easier to leave Discord.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      361·
      9 hours ago

      The problem with leaving Discord is convincing anybody else to join you, let alone an entire social circle. There are dozens of “better” messaging platforms I’ve signed up for where I never sent or received a single message because I had nobody to add.

      • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        9 minutes ago

        This is a case where you don’t actually need to “social!convince” anyone. It’s piracy, you are aiming for people who already want to go where the links are. You put the pirate stuff over IRC, people will go to the IRC. You put it on a Discourse forum, people will go to the Discourse forum. You put a catgirl to weigh their souls beforehand to check they are human, they’ll praise the catgirl.

      • Toasticus@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Some people can have a fatigue where they’re tired of just moving platform to platform. Communicating platforms is heavily saturated to where, nobody would feel that grand of a difference going from Discord to that platform when they can still do the basics. People still wouldn’t leave Facebook, even, despite that platform having largely corroded over the years.

        Until Discord is like charging people to use it, people aren’t going to budge. In a world where your privacy is circumvented whether you know it or not, a lot of people just shrug their shoulders at you when you present alternatives all like “ehh, cool” before just resuming what they’re already using.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        41·
        2 hours ago

        This is why we need it to be socially unfashionable to use discord. I coined the term “Discord bro” to refer to people who love and use discord exclusively. I entourage using that language when talking about the problem online and not being understanding or compassionate towards people. Convenience is a big reason for people using it. Stigma is a reason to switch.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      84·
      10 hours ago

      Right?

      I used Discord for about 15 minutes (OK, 6 months) before I could no longer tolerate it’s crappiness.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        913·
        5 hours ago

        How is it crappy? Company policies aside, the software is reasonably decent.

        Edit: Highly controversial and downvoted, yet the only reply is misinformation. Way to go lemmy, we’re catching up to reddit quick.

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          3 hours ago

          Company policies aside

          That’s kind of by far the most important class of problem though. I could complain about the complexity of its notifications system, or how all the ‘servers’ are represented with image icons and it sucks to navigate and find the one you’re thinking of if you add a lot of them, but it’s all small potatoes compared to being run by an enshittifying company complying (often in advance) with terrible laws and moving to use their accumulated leverage against their users. By developing a reliance on their service you put them in charge of you, but they cannot be trusted with that.

          • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            6 minutes ago

            it’s all small potatoes compared to being run by an enshittifying company complying (often in advance) with terrible laws and moving to use their accumulated leverage against their users

            I don’t disagree there! That’s why I was specific in referring only to their software quality.

          • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            38·
            7 hours ago

            I don’t know what you’re installing, but it takes 255MB on my phone. If you’re on a desktop, use your browser. Not that it should be much different.

            Edit: Also the same size on desktop according to Google. The fact that a statement as incorrect as yours is so heavily upvoted tells me there’s no actual logic and reasoning at play here in this argument.

            • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              4 hours ago

              The problem with electron apps are that they’re literally just browser windows, which require a lot of overhead that you wouldn’t need with a native application. What you’re recommending has no benefit.

              The issue is that Electron apps are an acceleration of Wirth’s Law.

              • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                8 minutes ago

                Still calling BS on ‘multi-GB’. Runs on mine in a few hundred MB. Not to mention you’re using the wrong terminology if you’re referring to memory usage and not storage space.

              • Zoot@reddthat.comEnglish
                22·
                2 hours ago

                Must be a windows problem. Discord is neither larger than 500mb in size, and never uses more than a gig of ram on my machine.

                There’s a million good reasons to not like discord. Age verification, the advertising, the paid nitro for emojis. Why lie?

  • quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    8 hours ago

    Mobilism never forgot the lessons of history. 🙏🏾 All hail Mobilism!

    (i know they don’t serve anime. it’s relevant because they stayed on their own forum site instead of flocking to discord like a bunch of bandwagoneers.)