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submitted 10 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won't tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole unavailable to the outside world and everything shared is a privacy nightmare. Posting this, pinning it here, and locking it is one of the biggest trolls possible. It pisses me off every time I log in. "Everyone else does it" is the excuse of idiots. Discord makes absolutely no sense to anyone that actually cares to look into it, read the user agreement, and ask sane questions about what they are doing.

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[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 44 points 10 months ago

Why are we telling people to go somewhere else that makes no sense

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Not saying I agree here, because I don't, but I think the idea is that lemmy.world is down so much that they wanted a stable platform for meta stuff.

I might be more sympathetic to that idea if they made announcements on the Discord and on Lemmy at as close to the same time as possible, but they don't.

[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

They should make announcements on another instance of lemmy then thats the whole point if one instance is down you can use a different one

[-] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It's not a replacement for lemmy.world , but rather a backup site for announcements when .world goes down.

[-] kaito@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Doesn't have to be done specifically over Discord, does it

[-] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Most people know Discord compared to Matrix lol.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Most people know Reddit compared to Lemmy lol.

[-] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

You're already asking a lot of reddit refugees to use Matrix over Discord, most who don't give much of a shit what's FOSS or not.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

That makes sense, sometimes you have to go with the pragmatic option instead of the ideal. I think we don't give the non-tech-inclined user enough credit when it comes to their ability to adapt to change though and I see value in encouraging the use of FOSS wherever possible since wider adoption can encourage further development.

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