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

  • sourcery@lemmy.one
    29·
    1 year ago

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

    • fouc@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

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

    • housefinch@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      Just makes a good setup for total data loss where there’s no documentation nor community to turn toward. As if whatever was made never existed. I’m concerned with all the forums that shuttered in the past years that moved 100% to discord and will soon probably have to reverse this trend.

  • autumn@reddthat.com
    17·
    1 year 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.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
    14·
    1 year 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
    13·
    1 year 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
      6·
      1 year 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·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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·
            1 year 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·
        1 year 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.

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year 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.

  • rockofox@pawb.social
    12·
    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.

  • c0mplexx@feddit.de
    12·
    1 year ago

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

  • AnonTwo@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year 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·
      1 year ago

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

  • 稲荷大神の狐@yiffit.net
    11·
    1 year 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.

    • Red@reddthat.com
      1·
      1 year ago

      They were going too, but listened to the community instead. (Re selling discord)

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
      4·
      1 year 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
    10·
    1 year 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.