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Discord is rewriting its entire desktop client in Rust with a native GPUI-based interface (dropping both Electron and React Native) (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 76 points 22 hours ago (21 children)

Stop using Discord.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

    My dnd group plays on discord, they ain't switching and I'm not gonna just stop one of the few joys I have in life

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  • [–] -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    Your D&D group can get fucked. So can you if you use that as an excuse to stay on a platform actively participating in fascism.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    I can see why you don't struggle with the network effect.

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  • [–] 0 points 43 minutes ago

    No, you don't see some things are more important than your own personal convenience.

    I've dropped people I've known for years over this. People I thought were better. But no, they, like you, like everyone else, don't care about the lives of other people so long as you're comfortable.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    I use vesktop, a heavily customisable and privacy friendly Discord app for this exact reason.

    I literally want to video chat my friends for D&D and the occasional Minecraft and get one of the most tedious and bloated pieces of software in existence. Why does my calling program have mini games, paid emotes and lag like a truck? I genuinely don't believe I have a hope in hell getting my friends off it, so that's my compromise.

    Discord being used like a wiki or forum can die though. Who thought a chat log was a good place to have guides and news, and how the hell has that not died long ago?

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago* (13 children)

    If there ever is an alternative that is also free to use, has (almost) the same features or more and has a at least halfway decent UI & UX, I'm more than willing to switch. But the only software I found that was pretty much on the same level as Discord (besides popularity) got bought and killed shortly afterwards by Roblox.

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  • [–] 12 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

    Fluxer and Stoat

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago* (1 child)

    Fluxer is shit as it's not-so-Libre and also asks you to pay for stuff that should be basic and free.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    While I don't know what the restrictions are on the official fluxer instance, I do think it's worth noting that if you self host everyone on your instance gets everything for free and you can set the limits for file upload and similar stuff to whatever you want, plus self hosting was pretty easy compared to when I tried it with matrix.

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

    Last time I used Stoat it still had the old name (can't remember what it was) and it was miles behind discord. No idea how much changed since the rebranding tho.

    Fluxer on the other hand sounds pretty promising, I'll look into it.

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  • [–] 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

    Fluxer is primarily what I use. Iirc Stoat is more libre

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