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

  • sourcery@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    It sure would be nice if development communities would stop locking their content behind Discord.

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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        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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      We start by mentioning software freedom in everyday converations over the long term. We should not expect anything without creating its foundations.

  • 稲荷大神の狐@yiffit.net
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    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.

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      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.

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    It is so far a slightly different situation. First it gets revenue directly by the users instead of advertisers. This changes everything at a fundamental level.

    Second, the type of community is much different. The communities using the full feature set are generally limited in scale one way or another. The issues with Facebook, Twitter and reddit arose also because there is a gigantic userbase which interacts with each other. Toxic policies are more likely to be forcefully accepted due to the massive social inertia.

    Type of content hits differently. As a lot of communication is real time, or moment to moment, there is less lost value if things go haywire. Now this absolutely does not apply for servers which directly act as a forum replacement run by the companies themselves. Some use it as a website replacement for some reason which is also a terrible idea.

    I think a future migration will be a lot more fluent and less hurtful overall. The moves away from TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, Skype were never impactful. With the monetization model I also view it as less probable.