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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Why does this community, which is privacy oriented, use Discord rather than Matrix? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On the side bar it lists the following:

[Matrix/Element]Dead

Discord

"Discord" is an active link, but the Matrix link is completely inactive. Not only is it inactive (which could have be excused as a broken link), but it is also manually labeled as "Dead", as if there is no intention of making it work. How can a community that is focused on privacy willingly favor a service that is privacy non-respecting when a perfectly functional privacy-respecting alternative exists?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I don't understand why it's so popular... It's a fancy IRC that's centralized by a single company

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Because it has significantly more features than IRC and it's dead simple to spin up your own "server" where you aren't beholden much to "admins" or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

fancy IRC

IRC was already "caveman playing with sticks and pebbles" a decade before discord became a thing. It's really not a good point of comparison and questioning.

Discord became popular for one simple reason: anyone could make a server, share it with a crossplatform link, and others could then try out that link without installing anything. In other words, it became popular because it literally copied Slack and because the Skype era was atrociously bad customization and ease of use-wise compared to the preceding.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If you legitimately don't understand why it's popular, you are seriously out of touch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better moderation tools
Easier to do voice/video channels
Easy to create your own server
Huge amount of useful bots created by the community
Features like replies, threads, onboarding screens, and custom emotes

Don't get me wrong, I wish that we could use a FOSS platform instead of Discord, but 1: people are already using Discord and it's hard to get everyone to switch platform, and 2: there is no comparable alternative right now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use it because some of my favorite games for the Nintendo DS that has Wiimmfi support use it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Too hard to regrow the, already tiny user base in those cases.

[–] njinx 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just got whiplash from hearing Wiimmfi outside the mkwii community

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, seems like it is only for MK for Wii, as it shows in the always decent active users count, but it supports many games, and I use it mainly for Metroid Prime Hunters and Jump Ultimate Stars.