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Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by grumple »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #179
grumple wrote: post #88

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Discord has always seemed like a Slack clone with better voice chat to me.

With an emphasis on the gaming space and open communities, whereas Slack focused on corporate and closed communities. I've been in the Go community for a while and they had to write a bot to get access to it (as Slack works invite only) and iirc had to work with Slack engineers to work with the scale they had. Meanwhile Discord's success is down to it being open, anyone can create a new channel and get instant access…

I think it’s a good product. The problem with all these chat apps (as companies to invest in) is there’s no moat; as soon as a more convenient or better option comes along, people will switch. There’s not a big integrated community or advantage to sticking to one app. Which doesn’t mean they can’t and won’t make plenty of money, just that I don’t buy into any hype around them.

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Post by Almondsetat »

Mashimo wrote: post #26
Almondsetat wrote: post #17

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What is the point of disallowing without policing?

Probably same as most other social platforms. Selective enforcement, virtue signaling, a tool to use when they get bad press for a server.

I mean, bad press will chastise you even if you actually enforce stuff

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by Zambyte »

curtisblaine wrote: post #137
Zambyte wrote: post #125

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Skype was also still popular among gamers when Discord was first available. That's what my friends and I switched to Discord from. These days I refuse to use Discord for political reasons though.

What political reasons? I googled for discord political controversies but didn't find anything too shocking.

I don't like depending on a proprietary commercial product to facilitate my personal relationships. I don't like the fact that they can (and are likely to) ban / block me from talking to my friends for choosing to run a client other than their proprietary web browser wrapper on my computer. I don't like that it's a single point of failure (that often does) for something as easy to host as chat. These reasons probably fall under the "not too shocking" label, but they're important to me.

Re: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

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Post by Arkhaine_kupo »

jorvi wrote: post #159
roenxi wrote: post #67

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I also spot "That’s the website, you can’t scroll further." in large, helpful letters. These people seem to have a pretty solid sense of humour. Mild enough it is difficult to take offence to, playful enough to add character. Hope they do well; I dislike closed source chat programs.

Rather than open or closed source programs, let's have interoperability. Then everyone can choose. I believe Facebook was aiming for something like that with Threads, and was playing to have WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger be open to a specific standard as well? I fondly remember the days of Pidgin and Adium..

> let's have interoperability.

Should be mandatory. Things like facebook took off because of network effects not because of the quality of the platform. Being able to migrate all your contacts/ chat/ tweets/ etc somewhere else seemlessly should be enforced by the gov to allow for actual competition. else you end up with first player advantage and network effects being unsurmountable and creating de facto monopolies with 0 benefit for the customer, in an environment that has low set up costs and you should see fierce competition.

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