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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

submitted 8 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 121 points 8 months ago

i don't understand discord's popularity at all. it's so annoying to use

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 65 points 8 months ago

It started getting popular years ago and that's when me an my friends switched to it too (back when I didn't know shit about privacy). You gotta keep in mind the alternatives back then were Skype, which was meant for 1 to 1 calls, had shit audio quality and issues all the time and TeamSpeak, which was complicated because you needed a server (we were kids, we only knew what a server was from Minecraft) and had a text chat that was only a small part of the bottom of the window that was full of connected and disconnected messages, so I actually didn't even know you could write in that. TeamSpeak's interface also isn't exactly good-looking or very intuitive. Then came Discord, you could create a server for you and your friends for free, you saw who of your friends was online and playing what, you could see when someone was in a voice channel and could just join, you had multiple text chats where you could easily send a link or memes while playing and you could easily share your screen with the others. It was a major improvement over the other two. I know that it sucks from a privacy standpoint but there's good reasons why people started using it.

[-] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I used ventrillo

[-] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

hey man get on vent

Man those were the days .

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I ran a paid vent server for like 10 years.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

I just got off a Mumble session. The technology is still here.

[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 31 points 8 months ago

It was my replacement of Skype, which was leaning hard into its enshittification around that time.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Where discord never had to lean into it as it was born shit

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

But it can always get worse. When they run out of money, some of the stuff that used to be free will begin to cost you something.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

COVID got people used to video/audio communication, then the other platforms enshitified while discord remained as shit as they always were.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 13 points 8 months ago

Same as any of the modern enshittified services. It used to be really good. Once they got a large userbase it was time to extract value from the users. The users never have the self-respect to leave, so there they stay.

[-] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago

Because that's where people are?

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

How familiar are you with IRC?

I was told by someone that IRC is kind of what discord is built on. Maybe the answer is someone in that relation, if what i was told is accurate or not

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 11 points 8 months ago

Discord copies a lot of concepts from IRC, like servers and threads are almost identical. But it isn't technically based on IRC. Maybe your friend mixed it up with Twitch chat which is actual IRC only slightly modified.