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

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
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    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.

  • TwilightGirl1992@lemmy.world
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    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
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      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
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        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.

      • TwilightGirl1992@lemmy.world
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        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
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          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
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            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.

    • fouc@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

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

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • 稲荷大神の狐@yiffit.net
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    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.

  • rockofox@pawb.social
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    2 years 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.

  • autumn@reddthat.com
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • AnonTwo@lemmy.world
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    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
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      2 years ago

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

  • c0mplexx@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

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

  • gabek@fedia.io
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    2 years ago

    Every community should own their own communication infrastructure, or they don’t actually own the community. It can disappear in a second. Matrix, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, IRC, whatever. An online community relies on the connecting tissue, so if you care about your community you need to own it.

  • rbits@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    2 years ago

    There’s not really any good alternative for large communities. The amount of tools available on Discord in the form of bots is so useful, any other platform they move to needs to have that as well.

      • rbits@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Yeah but now that it has it people aren’t going to leave. We need the alternatives to be good before they leave, they can’t migrate now and have it be good later.