Discord blocks 3rd-party apps. Discord is not libre software.

    • fouc@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 years ago

      So annoying when you run into an interesting project and you realise that the only documentation is a link to Discord.

  • c0mplexx@feddit.de
    18·
    2 years ago

    jokes on you i got overwhelmed by every channel being split into a gajillion chats anyway

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
    13·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • AnonTwo@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Autonomous User@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • 稲荷大神の狐@yiffit.net
    11·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • TwilightGirl1992@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org
      7·
      2 years ago

      How is the vision-impared accessibility with Lemmy? Obviously good enough that you’re using it but I’m curious how the experience is.

      • TwilightGirl1992@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org
          3·
          2 years ago

          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.

          • TwilightGirl1992@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 years ago

            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.

      • TwilightGirl1992@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • rockofox@pawb.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
      4·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • colorfulmoth@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • 1337@1337lemmy.com
    71·
    2 years ago

    Discord came around after I had already gone FOSS as much as possible, so I’ve never actually used it. I host two Matrix (Synapse) servers, one for friends and family and one for work. I don’t use it for large public chats, just friends or work, so my largest rooms are 10ish people each. The server side of things has never given me a problem, I easily run it on a 1 vCPU VM with 3 GBs of memory (I’m sure I could give it less if I needed to).

    On the client side, Element works well enough, but I do wish it felt a bit further along after all of these years. Calls work reliably if one end is a computer (so computer to computer or computer to phone), but phone to phone calls are a complete roll of the dice if they will work properly. Notifications are a complete mess. I have Element open on my desktop right now with zero notifications, if I turn on my laptop and open Element (same exact account) it will show a handful of rooms with notifications until I go mark those as all read. The worst is when you get a call that isn’t actually a call but a stuck notification from somebody that called you days ago.

    I mean I do love it, there is no alternative for me. I simply don’t even think about Discord or other proprietary apps as even a choice. I hope open source, decentralized software keeps gaining momentum and the rough edges are touched up a bit.

    • Sabata@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      How the hell did you get people to show up? My fiends took forever to be convinced over to discord.

      • 1337@1337lemmy.com
        3·
        2 years ago

        Work was easy enough - this is our messaging platform, use it, haha. For family and friends I would just take their phone and set everything up for them, join the rooms, set their avatar, everything. Minimize the work they need to do. It helps that none of my friends use Discord, maybe they do for games or something but they don’t use it socially to communicate with friends. So even though Element has its fair share of bugs, it is still much better than MMS between iphone and android users, so my friends and family do see the advantage there.

    • lhx@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve heard we need to check out revolt but haven’t gotten around to it yet.