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Tired of so many discussions being locked away in Discord, so hopefully they ramp this up and require identification to do anything so everyone will move to a more open platform.
Discord and github are the two platforms barely anyone dares to speak about. The Foss community barely mentions the usage of such platforms, despite nearly all of projects use discord as the support line.
It is really such a shame, since those projects make a significant contribution to open source software in one area. but just shits itself in the other.
At least public githubs aren't difficult to access and/or crawl. The big issue with Discord is that there is a wealth of information locked behind a proprietary system.
Unlike forums or even reddit, there is not way to get to most of the information posted on discord.
I don't understand, of course we can access it?
You can only access it if you install Discord.
No, GDPR laws allows me to download all data and also enforcing its deletion without using the app ever again
A lot of discord content is private, and those that aren't require you to have discord to search. On top of that, I'm pretty sure you need to join a server before you can search it's contents.
Since I don't use discord, there is no real way for me to access content hosted on it. Compared to Reddit or a Forum, I don't need to be a member of the community to access information shared there.
But the data is accessible and a migration can be done by those who posted it? Depends on local laws I guess.. their eula states everything you send in discord now belongs to then, but that is not allowed in the eu and many other countries
Sounds like we are talking about different kinds of "access". My original post was just lamenting that to the general web, discord is like a black hole. Things go there and never come out as you can only access the content through its app.
It would mean a lot to me if open source projects used op n source coms for discussions. I tried discord recently and couldnt even get prast email verification. I went into a server, asked questions and couldn't check to see if they were answered. Sorry people I ghosted!
Codeberg ftw!
Free software contributors I hang out with do mention the likes of irc, matrix, codeberg, and activitypub'ising git a lot.
No time to waste mentioning inferior software that's abusive.
Let alone use it.
What discussions happen on discord? I'm late 20s and play video games regularly and I have never used it. Thought it was where people streamed themselves playing video games or selling bathwater or whatever. Back in the day my home boys and I used to chat on teamspeak while gaming, but who has time for that shit anymore? My gaming is almost all single player or with the wifey 3 feet to my left lol.
A ton of game companies (especially indies) have moved bug reports and patch notes over to discord. Suggesting something on the steam forums often gets you redirected to their discord server. And it's not just gaming companies. I've got several pieces of software that the easiest way to find out about betas and updates are to use their discord server. It feels fairly unavoidable if you want to stay informed.
That is pretty unfortunate! Crazy how discord managed to corner the internet like that in a few years.
You ever have an issue with anything and you find the answer on some random reddit discussion that ends up in your search results when you're looking around?
Discord isn't really like the older methods of chatting, where people used platforms to chat for the sake of chatting. Entire communities from forums decided to just upend everything and move into discord. Niche software and other files are often shared among discord communities, or assistance for said files and programs is offered only through specific discord communities.
The platform is still better than anything we had back in the day, it's just that for some reason people have decided that everything needs to be stored in there.
Anyway, I don't see much changing. People will probably attempt to take this culture onto whatever new platform they move onto.
Man I miss when we had real forums. I used to go on nasioc for Subaru info now everybody is on FB pages. I have not yet found a need for downloading discord but I'm sure I'm bound to run into it eventually...
The cybersecurity certification companies use discord for support exclusively, and no you can't use a different company because they are the ones the market recognizes. Offsec, Altered Security, for example.
Glad you're willing to share her with all of us