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Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Where do you want me to start? The shady company that runs it? The godawful webapp and even worse electron “native” apps? All the privacy problems? The lack of any kind of guarantee that what you build there will still be there tomorrow? That’s all I can think of right now, but there’s probably more in the back of my mind somewhere.

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victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Start where you’d like, give me all you’ve got. 😄

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- Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Not OP, but:
  
  Not indexable (can’t use web search engines on its content, not even forums);
  
  Like Deep Rock Galactic, Discord is full of cave-dwelling creatures that abduct miners;
  
  The built-in search feature (the only way you can search things on it, mind you) has less filters than my uncle at thanksgiving;
  
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  Can’t mute the entire server because you want notifications for mentions on a few specific channels;
  
  Said server creates a new channel;
  
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  Can’t use browser bookmarks to manage and enter servers, you have to use THIS fucking thing
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  “but they have to pay for uptime somehow”
  confirmsharing, plus they got the monopoly on this type of social services by undermining their competition through venture capital so they could go under tomorrow for all I care
  
  Irrelevant for most people, but the garbage uncollapsible UI makes it painful to make it share screenspace with other windows on a FHD screen (which is a tragedy for tiling WM users);
  
  The markdown implementation is a bit janky IME
  
  "By reading the first 9 words of this notice you accept that you may not sue us and have to arbitrate your disputes"
  
  Third-party clients are against TOS, as you noted below
  
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  - victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    😆 very good list. I can imagine all of those problems.
    
    I’m very lucky, I am active in maybe 1 server, and then there’s my own which a few of my friends are active in. We’re just in our late 30s gaming with each other. Literally only use discord for the voice channels, nothing else. And I use Niri now, so tiling space is okay.
    
    But I can see why it’s not like this for everyone! 😩
    
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- Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Join my discord to find out more
  
  /j
  
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  - victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I was looking around for Discord TUIs or even third party GTK4 Discord clients. None seemed reasonable that I could find, that also supported voice chat. (None do, almost?)
    
    Seems also that using such clients are against the TOS. 😒
    
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