cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609

They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.

  • Zworf@beehaw.org
    98·
    9 months ago

    Good. I hope people will move away from it soon. I hate Discord for banning third-party clients and datamining my system for installed apps. So I’ve never really used it.

    It does mean I’m excluded from some FOSS projects’ support like Home Assistant but to hell with that :P

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
      31·
      9 months ago

      Hopefully those FOSS projects will gain some sense as discord becomes more shit and will leave. One can hope.

      • ErilElidor@feddit.de
        19·
        9 months ago

        I never understood how a chatroom took off as a tool to document stuff. Who seriously thinks this is a good idea? 😵

        • dan@upvote.au
          2·
          9 months ago

          If a project only has Discord for support (no docs, no bug tracker), I’m not using it. Don’t want to deal with trying to find anything in Discord.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      OP
      17·
      9 months ago

      ideally such changes to advertising and the ToS arbitration clause removing consumer rights will help give a lot of the open-source communities a gentle push to get off of discord. It’s become far too central to too many communities and is impossible to search for knowledge.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nl
      14·
      9 months ago

      Good. I hope people will move away from it soon.

      You mean like they moved away from Reddit when they killed 3rd party clients and openly began selling user data to data brokers?

      Or how they left Twitter when it was bought by an egomaniac who killed 3rd party clients, fired the entirety of the moderation staff, then required users to log in to view posts?

      Or maybe how they left Facebook after any of the many times they’ve been caught collecting user data against their will, promoted genocide, never allowed 3rd party apps, and willingly manipulated elections?

      Nevermind the fact that those platforms have had ads for decades.

      Yeah sorry, ain’t gonna happen.

      • dan@upvote.au
        1·
        9 months ago

        never allowed 3rd party apps

        Facebook used to allow third party apps (e.g. Snaptu started as a third-party app before the acquisition) and exposed most of the functionality via their API, but it’s not really a thing any more after Cambridge Analytica - the API was locked down significantly. You can’t really have it both ways… Allowing third-party apps also allows those apps to scrape and store user info, which is what Cambridge Analytica did.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
      6·
      9 months ago

      I’ve only ever used it in browser to limit what it can see on my machine. I was told by one of my coding professors that one of the signs of a virus is if it monitors what apps you’re running, I’ve been cautious ever since of anything that does that (obviously it isn’t the only sign and isn’t instant virus bin, like I have an app that monitors GPU usage and throttles apps to keep from cooking my machine)