Ahhh, yet another "Discord bad" post. Let's see what alternatives they propose. After all, just telling me I made the wrong choice isn't productive right?

There are great FOSS alternatives to Discord or Slack. SourceHut has been investing in IRC by building more accessible services like chat.sr.ht. Other great options include Matrix and Zulip. Please consider these services before you reach for their proprietary competitors.

Hahaha hahaha. Good fucking joke.

There's a reason Discord is a million times more usable than all of those, and it's not just network effect.

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I'm well aware discord is going to enshittify itself eventually. It's inevitable. However quite frankly as long as that hasn't happened yet, it will remain by far the best option. I am not going to knee-cap my project by using a Discord "alternative" that barely works.

The day Discord dies will be a massive loss for the internet. That hasn't happened yet. But it will. And it's not going to be a loss just because of all the communities locked in on it. It's going to be a loss because it's the best damn community chat software and there's no replacement.

[–] illectrility@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

as long as that hasn't happened yet

Hasn't happened yet? Have you seen the new mobile app? What usability?

[–] pjb@lemmy.spacestation14.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hey, you're not gonna get me to disagree the new app is terrible. Ain't some sort of wild gotcha here.

The fact of the matter is that even with the frog partially boiled it's still better than the alternative.

[–] illectrility@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I've used Element and I actually prefer it over Discord. But I use Vim mode in Obsidian so I clearly don't know squat about usability.

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