Comment on Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform
rinze@infosec.pub 7 months ago
IRC still rules. No ads in my irssi.
Comment on Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform
rinze@infosec.pub 7 months ago
IRC still rules. No ads in my irssi.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Does IRC do voice nowadays? I think that is the main reason people use Discord
ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 months ago
You mean does the 80s-based protocol that doesn’t even support encryption support voice?
It doesn’t support having messages received while you were offline
IRC supports one and one thing only: N-wise chats to connected clients. That and delusional nerds who like to think they’re better than everyone else
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Mumble exists
ulkesh@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I find there is no shortage of delusional nerds who like to think they’re better than everyone else. Even here on Lemmy.
rinze@infosec.pub 7 months ago
If you mean that in some channels only some people can actually “talk”, I think it depends on the configuration of the channel, but it’s a possibility.
I thought people used Discord because you could have video / audio chats (not sure about this, I’ve used it very sparsely.)
And then there are Open Source projects that use Discord as the documentation repository. Hell is a place on the Internet, apparently.
jarfil@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Discord became popular because it’s a more convenient integration of audio chat for gaming, with text chat: no need to set up a server (like TeamSpeak or Mumble).
People using Discord for official documentation, or bug reporting, are in a circle of hell just slightly below the ones doing the same on Reddit. Community support… they may get a pass.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
they meant voice chat, audio
rinze@infosec.pub 7 months ago
You’re right, I completely misinterpreted the comment. The thing is that “voice” is a very specific term within IRC, and I got confused :D
Vodulas@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Yeah, I mean audio chats (voice is short for voice chat). I think the video calls are not used as much, but are still a good feature. I’ll probably try Revolt (someone linked it below)
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 7 months ago
Vodulas@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I figured that was still the case, but would have been pleasantly surprised if it wasn’t. I don’t really keep up on IRC these days