At least you can access information on reddit from everywhere, and for the time being, without an account. Discord has the scumminess of reddit turned up to 11 and people love it.
I find it especially baffling when open source projects use it for communication.
The widespread use of Discord baffles me. It seems to be basically IRC with voice chat and no choice in servers. It's good for group voice chat with people you already know, but I can't see how it fits any other use case like being a replacement for a subreddit community.
it's pretty much proprietary IRC with extra bloat...unless you use a client but then your account is in danger
It's so bizarre to me how, in the wake of Reddit killing 3rd party apps, some people are running to Discord, which is infamously, actively hostile towards 3rd party apps, to the point of banning people for using them.
The official discord app is way better than reddits app and ad-free.
Discord is already hard at work to undo itself.
It has been going rapidly downhill.
I mean if you could point to anything remotely as easy to use and functional as discord then this joke makes way more sense.
All you need to do is take a look at the working versions of these apps (slack, teams, etc) at some of the main features to see how crap the competition really is.
https://app.element.io (Matrix) is still VC funded, but at least its underlying protocol is open source and you can self host
I had a terrible experience using matrix.
Revolt would probably be my next choice. Seems promising so far
While people still resist the Fediverse they will happily keep jumping from walled garden 1 to walled garden 2 because they lure them with convenience. But Discord is already starting to go to shit.
Have you've seen the username change? It is just wierd how things are going now. They are now slowly moving to having Twitter-like handles instead of the 4 number discriminator usernames, which means that you now have to claim your username and people are already starting to get spammed for their cool username. I just don't understand why.
Let's create a discord "server"...
Internally in Discord, it's called a "Guild" (i.e the API)
Users didn't care, and kept calling it a "server", so that terminology became the official one.
Walled garden makes it sound like a place someone maintains for communal pleasure. Lobster trap makes me picture someone caged for sale. Delicious lobster.
I am. Use Matrix or Revolt.
