Especially since this thread is about removing the pinned post. And a lot of the people downvoting are from other instances, they don’t even see it pinned it’s just ‘discord bad’. Which is literally the top comment in this thread.
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AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Fucking hell, this again.
Listen, you people need to realize a lot of people are here on Lemmy because Reddit screwed them over, not because Lemmy is open source or less of a privacy issue or whatever your reasons for using it are.
So you hate Discord. That’s fine, you’re allowed to! But pitching a fit because everyone else doesn’t hate it isn’t gonna convince anyone to stop using it.
antik@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
If I may, we are all probably alt juggling at the moment, the fact that you see people interacting with account from other instances does not mean the people don’t have an account on LW
dan@lemmy.fdr8.us 10 months ago
Agreed. I am posting from my personal Lemmy instance but I also have a lemmy.world account. I don’t like the direction lemmy.world has been moving in and I am opposed to the way they use and promote Discord.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Yeah I’m here because I like the alternative to Reddit’s bullshit.
I couldn’t care less about Foss. I mean it’s cool, but it’s not why I’m here.
Count0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 10 months ago
Reddits bullshit is the end case for ANY product or service that is not FOSS.
pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
You should care, or else you will go through reddit all over again and again.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Yeah, Reddit wasn’t the first time we’ve seen this, and it won’t be the last.
cloud@lazysoci.al 10 months ago
Sounds like you are not too smart
Magrath@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I think at the very least we could have an open source alternative along with the discord. No reason to completely shutdown the discord.
icedterminal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One already exists
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Moderation tools are in progress, so probably not good for now: trello.com/b/4e2O7tge/revolt-roadmap
icedterminal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It has moderation tools already. They’re upgrading and expanding them to be more granular per user feedback.
They’re not absent as your comment leads one to believe.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
matrix.org
I’ve been using it for a very long time now. (Mostly) works really well.
cloud@lazysoci.al 10 months ago
Reddit screw you over because it’s closed source and centralized. You need to realize that discord it’s just the same if not worst.
shertson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t hate Discord, but I do hate that they seem to require my phone number. I tried joining Discord over a year ago. Upon first log in they claimed that there was suspicious activity that required me to verify the account by giving them my phone number. This was from a computer, I never even visited the site on my phone let alone use the mobile app. I gave up and forgot about until a few months ago and decided to try again. They still wanted my phone number, email wasn’t good enough. I contacted their support email and was told that there was no other option but to provide a phone number and that they couldn’t override it. So I told them to delete my account and that I would never use their service. It took two weeks for them to do it.
There are very few situations in which an app needs my phone number in my eyes. And a chat application is not one of them. Just like I refused to use the official Reddit app because it wanted access to my contacts and location. I am not a super privacy nut, but the whole hog approach of gathering my info is not acceptable. I would rather pay for the service. I would have paid for Reddit if they had gone that route rather than dropping 3rd Party apps. Instead I’m on Lemmy.
So fucking hell yes, this again.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Everyone wants your phone number now because it’s a decent approach to combating spammers. Note that I said decent, not perfect. It’s relatively easy for a company to determine if a phone number is owned by a specific person vs. a voip company that enables spammers to use hundreds of new numbers, so now we’re asking everyone for theirs. SMS is also used for the lowest form of multi factor authentication, so they get to claim that it’s a security decision, not one for marketing, etc and because of network effects, we all have to choose to either go along or miss out.
Agree that it’s super annoying and certainly not privacy-centric, but Discord is owned by Microsoft, what can we expect? Innovation?
kaito@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Discord being owned by Microsoft, now that’s news to me. I don’t think that’s a thing, at least not yet.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
For some reason I was convinced they had sold out, but it looks like you’re right, they’re still independent for the time being. Thanks for the note!
shertson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I understand the ease for choosing phone numbers. I would love it if they gave me another option to validate.
For a community like Lemmy, I would prefer that they choose a different chat system, one that doesn’t require me to validate with a phone number. Matrix is an option and doesn’t require phone numbers.
Count0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 10 months ago
It also doesn’t work. I can’t use telegram because I have a number that I originally got from project fi, back when it was project fi. Eventually I moved cell providers and I migrated the phone number that I got with Project Fi. As such, a real number that I’ve had for over a decade looks like a voip range number, even though it isn’t anymore and hasn’t been for a long time.
vonbaronhans@midwest.social 10 months ago
Must be server specific. I’ve used Discord for years and never had to add a phone number.
Tenesto@citizensgaming.com 10 months ago
Your requirement to use software is based around whether or not it requires your phone number for verification?
Man some people draw really weird lines.
flamingarms@feddit.uk 10 months ago
What makes it a weird line for them to draw?
cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 10 months ago
are you in the uk? Cause that might make a difference. I’m in the US and a lot of apps use phone numbers for log in.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is shitty, but not common.
Certain channels will require a phone verified account, but most won’t.
Did you ever try on a phone or a different computer in a different location? With a different email?
shertson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I did try on phone, laptop, and desktop. I didn’t try with another email. Perhaps the channel required it, but since I was only trying to join Discord for that one channel, it wasn’t worth pursuing further. I sought and got support for my issue in other places.
haagch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If discord ever decides that your account is “suspicious” (they won’t tell you why they decide it), you will be completely locked out of your account and you can not do anything on the website unless you provide your phone number for verification. I have one such accounts too that I created for joining the community of a certain game. These are the only two screens you can access on this account:
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They also helpfully tell you that you can only verify a single account with your phone number, so if I wanted to verify this account for a gaming community, I would de-verify the account I use for work, so I’m not going to do that, lest it looks “suspicious” to discord and they delete my account - For example a while ago the person who created one of the discord community “servers” we use for work got their discord account deleted (discord wouldn’t tell us a reason).
The point isn’t to bash the discord company or service, I’m just stating things that happen if you choose discord.