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One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.

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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 96 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Discord prevented 3rd party clients before it was cool.

If the objective is to avoid being forced to accept changes to software you use.. why choose another person with the same power over you rather than free software?

[–] provomeister@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago

Same story with Twitter users going to Meta's Threads instead of Mastodon. Most people don't see privacy online as an important matter because it's non-tangible for them. They go with the "safe/popular" option only for the story to repeat itself later...

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 20 points 1 year ago

Because nobody really cares about free as in freedom. Speaking in hyperbole, of course, but you step outside of our tech savvy bubble for just a moment and it feels that way very quickly. As far as they're concerned, Facebook is free. Threads is free. Switching from twitter to threads is just switching from one shitty free thing to another free thing that they think will be less shitty. Of course it's less shitty now, they want users. Mastodon? Pleroma? Seems kinda confusing, what's a server? Is FB a big server? Yeah... Free software alternatives have some PR problems to overcome at the moment. Now if there could be a new thing, a killer app, that was free? That would be insane.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least their client isn't hot trash like reddit though 😂

[–] claudiop@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it? It somewhat-works in the browser but you don't get proper noise cancellation there nor quite some other features. Their native client is using an ancient version of Electron that, at least on Linux, leaves a lot to be desired. No audio-share, no proper Wayland support, no High-dpi.

There are quite a few amateur GitHub projects with patches and repacks to show how things should be done.

If a client is only good on Windows, then it is not that good. Remember Skype?

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I game on Linux and discord worked fine for me. Anyways this isn't really an apples to apples comparison. The reddit client crashes a lot and injects ads in the feed and lacks all the nice stuff of 3rd party clients.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was on discord for 3 days. It was awful. A dumpster fire is, by my definition, still hot trash.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're gonna say it's bad you could at least explain the reasoning

That's fair. I used the mobile app, so this may differ for any other user access points. It kept trying to read data that I have already denied, like location and access to sms as two examples. It also kept crashing at odd places. I'm sure there was a pattern, but I didn't stay long enough to extrapolate it. Now, I know that the network is useful. However, at least at the time, the app was garbage and I had had enough of the leaks (as per my firewall) it was causing on top of the already privacy invasive defaults. I don't shame anyone for using it, nor do I think it's "the devil" or whatever. However, I do think the UI for the mobile user at the time was absolutely unacceptable as the official app, and the fact that the mobile web page almost forced you onto the broken app was also unacceptable. As I only ever used it for one community, I didn't spend much time to find an alternative (if one even exists), and maybe that part's on me.