Now what?
I was very disappointed that the rest of this paragraph didn’t go in a completely different direction
pirated gifs?!
Are we on discord here and now? nyaa? 9anime? HA!
This will hopefully encourage them to switch to an decentralized open source alternate
We all know it won’t
You’d hope so. People are at last actually ditching Windows for Linux, so it’s possible.
Is Fluxer still trying to get federation going? We need it. It would make it easier to leave Discord.
Matrix has had working federation for years
Hunh. I wonder when the gaming community’s next. 🥲
Frankly if you are still using discord you deserve this.
Yet another reason to leave Discord.
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.
Right?
I used Discord for about 15 minutes (OK, 6 months) before I could no longer tolerate it’s crappiness.
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.
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.
A multi-gigabyte Electron app should not be a requirement for chat, even with voice and video, for one.
someone should reverse engineer it. i bet its full of spyware
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.
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.
You are familiar with the concept of RAM, yes?
well it isnt? just open the website in a browser.
You can’t be serious
Websites still use RAM.
and join fluxer
you should have just 🔁 the !anime@ani.social 🧵
Rizon is still alive and kicking.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.)
Use stoat It’s Foss discord
Oh no. If only there wasn’t fluxer instead.
Oh well
