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As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by driminicus »

philtar wrote: post #119
brendyn wrote: post #114

It's interesting seeing a post about censorship in China on the front page with many concerned HN posters, while under it is a post about Discord gaining many users where none of the comments point out the most important thing: Discord is proprietary software, meaning users have no practical capability, or legal right, to study, modify, or share the code, and it is a centralized service. Thus Discord can be used for…

Your opinion should be rejected outright for offering no alternatives.

Start using riot.im it's Foss, and federated (with a very cool end to end encryption I might add).

If you prefer a more classical voice chat use mumble.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by tscs37 »

gsich wrote: post #132
Dylan16807 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being a Skype alternative requires persistent chat, audio, and video.

Why?

Because that is what some people want from a chat service. They want to be able to scrollback and see what happened overnight without operating some kind of server for that. They also don't want to necessarily have to login or have to worry about private keys.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by SauciestGNU »

driminicus wrote: post #131
philtar wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your opinion should be rejected outright for offering no alternatives.

Start using riot.im it's Foss, and federated (with a very cool end to end encryption I might add). If you prefer a more classical voice chat use mumble.

Matrix (the protocol riot uses) includes voice and video, and riot.im supports both. I run a matrix server for some friends and we like it a lot, though some of us still prefer IRC.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by falcolas »

brendyn wrote: post #114

It's interesting seeing a post about censorship in China on the front page with many concerned HN posters, while under it is a post about Discord gaining many users where none of the comments point out the most important thing: Discord is proprietary software, meaning users have no practical capability, or legal right, to study, modify, or share the code, and it is a centralized service. Thus Discord can be used for…

This bothers me too, especially since many communities require you to integrate it with other platforms too. Want access to N channel? Connect to Patreon to prove you contribute. So many integrations, so many communities controlled by a single entity. Oiy.

And this doesn’t even touch on the attention cost... it gets stupidly demanding of your attention with all the @ mention options. If you’re part of more than one community, you had best prepare to be quite liberal with the mute feature.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by AlphaSite »

brendyn wrote: post #114

It's interesting seeing a post about censorship in China on the front page with many concerned HN posters, while under it is a post about Discord gaining many users where none of the comments point out the most important thing: Discord is proprietary software, meaning users have no practical capability, or legal right, to study, modify, or share the code, and it is a centralized service. Thus Discord can be used for…

The front end is well document, so you can trivially implement a client.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by cuckcuckspruce »

AlphaSite wrote: post #138
brendyn wrote: post #114

It's interesting seeing a post about censorship in China on the front page with many concerned HN posters, while under it is a post about Discord gaining many users where none of the comments point out the most important thing: Discord is proprietary software, meaning users have no practical capability, or legal right, to study, modify, or share the code, and it is a centralized service. Thus Discord can be used for…

The front end is well document, so you can trivially implement a client.

Which doesn't matter if your are banned from the network. Changing clients or implementing alternate clients won't fix that.

Re: As Discord nears 100M users, safety concerns are heard

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Post by cuckcuckspruce »

iMarv wrote: post #96
ben-schaaf wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Push to talk is most certainly not obsolete. I (and many gamers I know) use push to talk for the privacy of being able to choose when your microphone is activated. Its even more useful in competitive gaming and/or streaming where many want to chose what to say to their team/friends and themselves/the stream.

Also helps a lot in large communities. There will always be people that are nice and you like to have around, but are a bit "louder" during gaming sessions. We were really successful by teaching them to not hit the PTT-button when they need to drop their load of frustration.

The gaming community that I am a part of that uses Discord holds a weekly big gaming session where almost everyone attends at the same time. It occurs around dinner time on the west coast, so some of our west coast members will be having dinner between rounds. Push to talk allows them to talk between bites without all of us getting the smacking sounds of chewing and eating in our ears.
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