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Brace yourself for Discord to get worse: Reports swirl that the company is in talks with bankers about opening itself up to shareholders (www.pcgamer.com)

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[+] blazeknave@lemmy.world -6 points 1 month ago

I don't get the hate... It's a solid free product. I can't recall it ever going down unlike every commercial product I pay for at work. It has granular access controls, plethora of capabilities through integrations and bots. Yes, it's not FOSS. Okay.. is that a requirement for any and everything? Wtf is people's problem with it? I sold to their trust and safety team and they were the best humans I ever met. I use it for tons of personal projects, have made friends all over the world.. it's more like early internet vibes than here tbh

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

This is just a guess, I might have some availability bias (or whatever it's called, not gonna bother looking it up), but I think a lot of the hate stems from how inaccessible content in Discord is without having access to the server or a Discord account. It's not indexed by search engines. So many projects use it (because it's so easy to make a server and get it going) and post documentation, issues, etc. exclusively there.

The Lemmy community is not very diverse yet. There are a lot of tech enthusiasts, FLOSS enthusiasts, privacy enthusiasts, and leftists. Most of these groups of people have reasons to dislike Discord. Tech folks hate it because of what I said above. FLOSS enthusiasts hate it because it's not FLOSS. Privacy enthusiasts hate it because it's not end to end encrypted. Leftists hate it because it's it's a company.

So while everything you're saying is true, I think it's that most of the types of people who use Lemmy have various reasons to dislike it.

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