Comment on What's your opinion about Discord?
MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 2 years agoBecause 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?
MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Because if Discord starts having major issues that impact convenience, I'll have an easy time pointing that out to my friends-- particularly if there's an open source alternative that alleviates said issues.
Signal was pretty rough when it first came out but the moment they had support for Windows, OS X, iOS and Android, it was ridiculously easy to convince people to make the switch from whatever they were previously using to Signal.
I feel like you're too concerned with playing devil's advocate than trying to figure this out for yourself by thinking in more nuanced terms.