Repost from @technomancy@icosahedron.website

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Stop doing Discord

  • capitalists were not supposed to own your community
  • Years of hanging out yet no real-world use found for sending your private data to be sold to advertisers
  • Wanted to leak private data anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that; it was called “turning off ublock origin”
  • “Yes please search our chat archive for answers to your question. it will certainly remain up forever and not get deleted when the shareholders realize it’s not profitable” statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

Look at what discord admins have been demanding your respect for all this time:

  • task manager screenshot, discord using 97% of CPU
  • discord making too many automated requests and getting throttled
  • crash screenshot

“3rd-party client? lifetime ban”

They have played us for absolute fools

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  • BeardedGuy@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    I can’t remember what Discord did at the time, but there was a decent push to try and move to a different platform. We tried out Guilded, but we had a pretty hard time getting adoption from the users on our Discord server and ended up dropping the transition.

    I didn’t think I’d ever say this again, but TeamSpeak 5 is actually looking like it could be the solution we’re looking for. I still need to figure out how I can host a server compatible with version 5 though.

    • noontrust@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      How does Teamspeak differ from Discord in terms of ownership? Bc it seems like the functionality is pretty similar

      • BeardedGuy@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        My understanding is that while Teamspeak does provide some public servers that you can connect to, most servers are privately hosted.

        People either subscribe to hosting services or host it on their own hardware which gives you complete control of the server and the content.

        I know I’m planning on trying to host my community server on my hardware, but I’m not too sure about how the “Homebase” comes into play with TS5

      • BeardedGuy@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        I only just learned about that combination yesterday. Sounds like I should look into it a bit more?

          • YuzuDrink@beehaw.org
            0·
            1 year ago

            Does Matrix have an equivalent to “servers” on Discord? Like, I can join one and it comes with a bunch of chat rooms owned and moderated by the same community? Because that’s the biggest thing I used Discord for is following and interacting with communities I’m in; and I just fired up Element and I see nothing that hints that it would be possible…

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I still need to figure out how I can host a server compatible with version 5 though.

      You can’t. Only trusted vendors at the moment can host v5. You can only host v3 and v5 clients can still connect.