Comment on What's your opinion about Discord?
poVoq@lemmy.ml 2 years agoSays the pig being fattened up for slaughter /s
Of course it is going to look nice if you are being pampered with loads of money to lure you in. Discord is just a bit earlier in the inevitable progression than Reddit etc... why are you here now and not any longer on Reddit?
MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Because unlike Discord, I have a number of issues with reddit to the point of it creating an unpleasant experience. Switch from reddit to Lemmy didn't have to involve convincing my friends to join Lemmy, as it's a website-- not communications software in the way Discord is.
The compromise of a small community on Lemmy is something I don't mind, because it doesn't really prevent conversations from happening. Whereas switching from Discord to an open source alternative that most of my friends aren't going to use just leaves me with perhaps a better alternative to Discord in terms of functionality/privacy without anyone else using it.
poVoq@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Well, that is exactly my point. Sooner or later similar issues as with Reddit will crop up on Discord and it is likely to be worse as Discord as an even stronger communication lock-in.
MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
So then you pretty much answered your own question, I think. When Discord has enough fuckery for me to be annoyed with it, I'll gladly hop to an alternative. I'm in a whopping two Discord communities and I don't think the transition would be very difficult at that point.
poVoq@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
How will you do it when as you say yourself all your friends are still on Discord?