sibachian

@sibachian@lemmy.ml

• Comment on Meta threatens to pull Facebook and Instagram from the European market:

  stop. don't. come back.

• Comment on EXCLUSIVE: Google is trying to salvage its failing Stadia game service with a new focus on striking deals with Peloton, Bungie, and others under the brand 'Google Stream':

  well that sucks. as much as i avoid google in all things, stadia is the only affordable game streaming service on the market (since you don't have to pay for a subscription to play long sessions), and it's been streaming games very smoothly unlike its competition (i'm looking at you, geforce now).

• Comment on What's your opinion about Discord?:

  Guilded matches them in features and adds more gaming niched stuff like actual forums into your "server".

  matching Discord, or even improving on it, doesn't matter. Discord is already king. To dethrone the king, non-Discord users need to be the main target so Discord users are forced to use both, until all their contacts merge and slowly migrate to the second software over time due to more features and ease of use.

• Comment on Chinese Telecom Equipment Is Banned in the USA:

  couldn't China just embargo the US from every country where they own a large part of the infrastructure? i.e. block food from South America? the US is already having problems with food access, China putting pressure there would hurt them.

• Comment on Samsung facility in Austin spilled up to 763,000 gallons of acidic waste into tributary, over a period of up to 160 days, memo to city council says:

  sounds pretty consistent to me, considering they were wealthy landowners before going into ventures like the mentioned grocery story.

  gotta be rich to get rich.

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  signal is centralized, requires your phone number, hosted in the US, has very limited interface and features, and run by a steve jobs type personality. thanks, but no thanks.

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  Discord is also a privacy risk.

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  i haven't had this issue in over a year except for when using clients other than element.

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  i've had a lot of issues with getting nheko to sync for some reason. suddenly it just desyncs and all messages are encrypted. or it doesn't sync at all and i only get messages on element on the phone. but yes, we should all collectively be against electron; it just gives google/chrome another platform to dominate - which is especially important to be now that they're disabling adblockers.

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  not everyone has the time or technical for running and operating their own infrastructure. it's why most people stick to lemmy.ml, matrix.org, etc.

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  mumble (which displaced ventrilo/teamspeak as the previous dominant gaming chat clients) was already displaced by curse voice, which then got displaced by discord.

  discord was selling itself as "the good guys" who would never do something scummy, and targetted the market as a slack for gamers, and right before launch, they sold out. but it was already "too big" to get people to change client. and now it's growing even more because people are looking at it as an alternative platform to facebook groups - now that facebook is fucking up groups.

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  agreed. i've been stuck with discord for years because i don't really keep in touch with a lot of people and the three main people i keep in touch with uses discord exclusively (one is a developer and uses it within those circles, the other is a gamer and uses it within those circles, the third is an aquarist and uses it within those circles). i've argued so many times that we should move to matrix, but they insist that the community structure of discord is superior to anything on the market. @Ninmi@sopuli.xyz has a valid point that it has a good structure for plain communication, but that doesn't mean it's a good community platform for exchange of information; which is your point and i wholly agree. for the purpose of exchange of information, "guilded", a discord clone, is superior as it actually has multiple information exchange features such as an actual forum on top of discords features. unfortunately it is also not FOSS and it is my personal reason for choosing matrix over it, despite matrix not having the features either discord or guilded does. it is frankly infuriating that something like guilded can pop out from nowhere with a small team and do what matrix has failed to deliver for years.

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  element (like discord) is using an electron wrapper, which is awful and there is no way around it. what we need is a real client. nheko is far behind in features, so if anything, we need more people involved in improving that client.