Gabriele Svelto
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Discord is my most used app and I hate it. Matrix has a whole host of issues and I'm done with it. IRC is fine but it's no discord.
Clearly we need to bring back XMPP 
But honestly that wouldn't be a bad idea. If I get some free time I might try to make a discord like XMPP client.
#xmpp #discord #irc #matrix
Tonight, I uninstalled Discord from my system. In its place, I am going to try Revolt. I already use Signal for a small number of contacts but don't expect everyone to move to it.
My reasoning is because I have been concerned for a long time about Discord's business practices. They are trying to jam in ads and monetization wherever they can. Not only is the software proprietary, it is essentially spyware.
#Discord#Revolt#Signal#FOSS #freesoftware #tomsguide #spyware
just small circles 🕊
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One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger#Apps.
My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal¹, #Telegram, #Discord², #WhatsApp, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:
WHY is there no #CrossProvider#Messenger to handle that shite?
WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated#WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU they can??
This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)
I mean
API 0- style access because obviously none of the platforms will allow, endorse or support such an endeavour and actively fight the developers and users !
So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidginfor garbage platforms!
And it's not like people and espechally businesses are unwilling to pay for good tools, cuz not only is HootSuite still around, but @tapbots, who made the excellent TweetBot nowadays make @ivory, an excellent #ActivityPub client with focus on #Mastodon that people are willing to pay a #subscription for!
- And from what I could see from users who pay for it, they are not just happy, but it also looks and feels better than #TweetDeck in it's golden days...
Like: There's not much of a technical reason something similar to @zulip 's #TUI - based client could exit.
- Obviously #proprietary platforms - (just like #Shitter even before #ApartheidEmeraldBoy took over and speedrun it into becoming a #NaziBar) - will try to passive-aggressively stifle such #clients, but still...
If people can build #bots for shite like #discord, #Telegram, etc. then why not make an actually good client ???
I mean, these ain't like in the old days where a few Megabytes got you #Pidgin and other Multi-Protocol Clients of the old days where everyone had to implement bespoke, custom and incompatible and *often completely undocumented, proprietary * protocols like #ICQ, #AIM, #SIPE, etc.
- Nowadays all these do have some kind of #WebApp or Web Interface one can just login (because *none of them do proper #E2EE with #SelfCustody of all the keys!) so this should be way easier these days: All they do is do HTTP(S) GET/POST so the most critical part is to attain credentials like a #Login #cookie and to basically run a console on i.e. #Firefox to reverse-engineer the #API...
It just makes me wounder: Are modern messengers these days complicated or do the people who have the talent to write such a #MultiProtocolIM chosen that this is stupid and that like myself they'd never touch that shite in their life and make peace with it?
- And I'm not talking about specific #API limitations like #Discord uses to force people to use their garbage client, but like #WhatsAppWeb and others...
One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger#Apps.
My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal¹, #Telegram, #Discord², #WhatsApp, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:
WHY is there no #CrossProvider#Messenger to handle that shite?
WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated#WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU they can??
This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)
I mean
API 0- style access because obviously none of the platforms will allow, endorse or support such an endeavour and actively fight the developers and users !
So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidginfor garbage platforms!
We now have multiple platforms to communicate with us. We're on #Matrix , #Signal and #Discord . Please see https://links.btfree.org if you'd like to join any of these communities. We'd prefer Matrix, but we want to make our platforms as accessible as possible, so we're trying to be as many places as possible.
ozoned
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We now have multiple platforms to communicate with us. We're on #Matrix , #Signal and #Discord . Please see https://links.btfree.org if you'd like to join any of these communities. We'd prefer Matrix, but we want to make our platforms as accessible as possible, so we're trying to be as many places as possible.
We now have multiple platforms to communicate with us. We're on #Matrix , #Signal and #Discord . Please see https://links.btfree.org if you'd like to join any of these communities. We'd prefer Matrix, but we want to make our platforms as accessible as possible, so we're trying to be as many places as possible.
Pascal
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🇩🇪 Hey queer folx in Germany! 🇩🇪
I have a queer friend who's fleeing the US to your lovely country. She's hella cool, but she doesn't know anyone there yet 👉👈
I told her I'd pass on the Discord info (sadly, she's not on Mastodon) of any of my community here if they wanted an introduction 💞
Did I mention she's awesome? 
🇩🇪 Hey queer folx in Germany! 🇩🇪
I have a queer friend who's fleeing the US to your lovely country. She's hella cool, but she doesn't know anyone there yet 👉👈
I told her I'd pass on the Discord info (sadly, she's not on Mastodon) of any of my community here if they wanted an introduction 💞
Did I mention she's awesome?
Strypey
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One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums https://aftermath.site/discord-forums-move-champions-neverwinter-star-trek-support-faq#Discord#Forum#Forums
One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums https://aftermath.site/discord-forums-move-champions-neverwinter-star-trek-support-faq#Discord#Forum#Forums