4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right

pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

    • ono@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      My guess: The kids who used Discord for gaming grew up, and just went with the familiar thing when starting new communities and projects.

      Also, Discord did heavy marketing early on, until it carved out a network effect. So here we are.

      • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
        3·
        5 months ago

        It’s terrible for secure/private communications, it requires hacks that violate the TOS and EULA to modify the client to get rid of ads and change themes, it’s not FOSS, and it locks features behind a paywall…

        But it does what skype already did, so I’m glad we all have to migrate to the new fad site that strips even more of our dignity and privacy every 10 years that’ll die anyway because it offers nothing and has a terrible business model.

      • TechNom (nobody)@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        It’s bloated, filled with features no one needs for straight-forward work, has a somewhat obtuse UI and is buggy as hell. I don’t like Matrix much more than Discord. But even it has far fewer problems. I don’t know in which universe Discord is considered as ‘good’.

      • Umbreon@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 months ago

        People act like the alternatives are any better but they really aren’t. Sure don’t get me wrong it sucks that you typically have to scroll through useless info to find what you’re looking for, but I put that on the server owner, you see the same issue on most forums too. Discord brings huge audiences that you wouldn’t normally see in small communities. It’s free, easy to setup and access, has a mobile app with toggle-notifications(and maybe just my settings but I’ve never gotten an ad notification or anything I haven’t purposely toggled). People here are acting like you have to start using it as your primary messaging app and that you can’t just take your messaging to another platform if your worried about chat logs.

        • Evotech@lemmy.world
          01·
          5 months ago

          There’s zero way dishes would become so popular if users didn’t like it.

          The fact that it has chat, voice, streaming, automation, accessible api and oauth.

          I mean please, these foss people can downvote all they want, but it’s a good application for communities.