Comment on Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform
Kaldo@beehaw.org 5 months agoI don’t know about discord issues, the hype behind is it mostly that it’s free, very convenient, feature rich and can easily integrate bots.
Matrix issues that I read about can be seen here telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07 . I haven’t done my own research tho so I don’t know if all of this is (still) true
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Almost all of those issues are due to federation. Lemmy shares most of them. Considering that we’re on Lemmy, I’d say it’s mostly a non-issue for us. Maybe use something else for encryption-required communications, but other than that it sounds fine to me.
Kaldo@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Lemmy is a public forum, discord servers are usually for invite-only, more closed-off communities, and we’re not talking about a lemmy replacement but rather how this is inadequate as a discord replacement.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That’s true, but the vast majority of the issues aren’t related to that. The majority of the issues in the article (if you read them you’d know) are about replication. They’re about whether the timing of posts, deletions, bans, and things like that possibly not being replicated perfectly across all instances. Lemmy has the same issues, but I haven’t noticed them causing problems yet. They would be even less of a problem in a private discord-like environment.
tlf@feddit.de 5 months ago
Just because I use Lemmy doesn’t mean I was able to convince anyone of my social circle to join (with lack of content as the primary reason). Building communities requires users and a lack of those is an issue with many FOSS projects.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That’s true. Unrelated to the issues in the article, but it is something that makes it hard to switch over.