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kopper colon_three @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work
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extremely funny how when someone says "you gotta leave discord today right now" it doesn't take long before they say they haven't used it beyond like 5 minutes. of course they don't realize all the alternatives suck and people are effectively stuck. they flat out don't know what people need out of a discord replacement

what do you expect people to switch to? fucking irc? matrix?
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kopper colon_three @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work
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matrix cares more about being An Univesral Global History Synchronization Platform (rather than being a usable chatting platform). whateverthefuck atproto one is cares more about Local Only Bullshit (rather than being a usable chatting platform). irc is held back by Weird Greybeards who think anything invented after 2003 is bloat and should be killed on sight. xmpp and signal think Group Chats are the be-all end-all of communities. what else do we have? roblox guilded? no wait - that shut down

the problem with "discord alternatives" is that they are made by people who either hate the concept behind discord or who have their own tech to sell and need a demo. nobody is making a chatting platform for the purpose of making a good chatting platform
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@kopper yeah discord has a killer feature: it freaking works well enough for just about anyone
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@kopper Matrix federation is cool and works quite well nowadays. Signal end to end encryption is very important for 1-on-1 messaging, and small group chats. IRC is neat for its simplicity. They're all really cool platforms in their own ways.

but discord Just Works
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@kopper and Discord has been boiling the enshittification frog incredibly well for the past years, I do not expect that to change
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