This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won’t tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole unavailable to the outside world and everything shared is a privacy nightmare. Posting this, pinning it here, and locking it is one of the biggest trolls possible. It pisses me off every time I log in. “Everyone else does it” is the excuse of idiots. Discord makes absolutely no sense to anyone that actually cares to look into it, read the user agreement, and ask sane questions about what they are doing.

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    Even Discord issues aside, it just seems strange to have a proprietary software used for a platform as open source as Lemmy.

    It would be as strange as having a Twitter account for the instance.

      • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Which is our main platform for announcements and the discord server is just to complement LW not to replace any of it.

        • GONADS125@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Not hating, just was confused by the shift. I missed the piracy defed announcement because I didn’t realize there was the discord announcements too now.

          • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I know, didn’t take your comment as ‘hate’.

            But that won’t happen again. Should have been on LW first but with a DDOS happening the admin decided to put it on discord first.

            • GONADS125@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              Just wanted to be clear with how emotionally charged these topics have become for so many of the users here lately…

              And didn’t even think about it being in response to the DDOS attacks. That makes sense.

    • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      IMO that’s being too fanatic. I love FOSS, but you don’t have to use FOSS for absolutely everything. Making a FOSS product does not mean you need to use FOSS for everything. And sometimes the closed source options are simply the best. Eg, GitHub and Discord are widely considered the best options in their field.

      Also, at least before Twitter became such a shitty alt-right shit hole, many FOSS products did have twitter accounts! That’s just part of promoting your product and providing an alternative place to contact and discuss. Eg, when Reddit went down, I’d usually check their twitter to get updates on it.

      • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        Eg, GitHub and Discord are widely considered the best options in their field.

        Librewolf moved to Codeberg a few weeks ago, so I guess there are still alternatives.

        As said elsewhere, Mozilla uses Matrix.

        Following that logic, why do we bother using Lemmy in the first place? We could just go back to Reddit, using revanced apps with personal API keys, and call it a day.

        Also, at least before Twitter became such a shitty alt-right shit hole, many FOSS products did have twitter accounts!

        They did, but then Twitter went to shit. Reddit was fine, until it went to shit. If the Piped project were to use a subreddit instead of [email protected] , wouldn’t that be a missed opportunity too? FOSS project should support each other, otherwise it questions their existence in the first place. Why would other organisations and companies bother with the FOSS alternatives if FOSS projects themselves don’t?

        • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
          1·
          1 year ago

          Following that logic, why do we bother using Lemmy in the first place?

          I mean, I’m only here cause reddit sucks and I wanted to see if Lemmy has a different atmosphere. So far it does. Too bad its kinda dead around here.

                • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I watch a lot of old tv and I see communities here for that but they seem to lean towards newer media - reddit has all kinds of niche subs that get traffic and interaction for the stuff I like. Unfortunately its not worth it to be there for it cause so many people are there to just troll/make things difficult for people.

                  I also like make up and J-fashion. I saw no communities for either and the closest I saw was a goth community which isn’t geared towards the fashion, but the music side of it.

                  Really like having local communities too. I’m in Portland, OR which has several sub reddits - but there are communities here that seem to get no interaction, just posts with links.

                  Also artwork, I’m an artist and looked around at the art communities here. Nothing really stood out. It seems to be reposting other people’s art or just art that doesn’t fit on other sites so nothing that I actually like, where as I have to get that mostly on tumblr anyway. That’s the only place I seem to find artwork I enjoy and fanart. I’m really shocked there isn’t a fanart community here. I supposed I could start one but then I run the risk of reposting artwork and needing to credit everytime and the inevitable risk of me just posting and no interactions. (if you’re not familiar, some artists don’t like reposts even if they are credited for it)

                  When I use the lemmy explorer, I find a lot of communities like that too. Seems to be one or two people posting, no posts get comments.

                  There’s also radio shows and podcasts I listen to and I don’t see any communities for those either but I think those are like some really niche interests of mine and I was shocked that Phil Hendrie had a sub reddit even, the guy is so unheard of.

                  I guess not liking mainstream stuff is really shooting me in the foot but like, I can’t help what I like?