Imagine using discord without Vencord, I'm sure someone will add a plug-in to remove all its crap at least I hope so, it already has some really good ones that give you access to free nitro bs.
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I've been keeping an eye on Matrix if discord keeps getting worse. It is awful trying to look up guides or important info in discord's format.
There's also Element which feels a lot like discord. The problem though isn't moving to a new platform, it's convincing the masses to do the same.
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In the past month I noticed ads inside Viber desktop (it's used a lot here, instead of WhatsApp)
Later I got a call from a friend that his windows defender picked up a trojan in Viber files.. Next day I got it too.
I shit you not, they let out an update with malware, on a popular chat app. I uninstalled and got the next update, with blind trust, I can't migrate atm...
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Well, that's what you get for letting a private company replace and open protocol with a proprietary solution because it's easier to use and has some cute emojis.
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Not related to the article itself, but I'm curious why use of archive.is has become so popular around here considering that they refuse to provide DNS replies without edns personal information attached? I'm not familiar with the politics involved, but a lot of DNS providers are getting blocked by archive.is for not providing that info, including my own home DNS server and cloud flare 1.1.1.1 and many others, so I'm surprised to see it gaining popularity on Lemmy.
I use the .is link for everything because it's the only way to reliably get into most of the paywalled articles form sites like WSJ. The other archive sites have already been blacklisted and get served a paywalled copy or blank "please enable javascript" page.
I knew nothing of it's DNS funkiness.
Do you have an alternative that it would be reasonable for people to know about?
how do you get more money out of a product once you reach a point where anyone who will ever use it is already using it?
less money out, more money in, which is to say you make it shittier and more expensive. Remember, you're only as good as your most recent revenue change.
It was either that or they start charging. They're gonna piss people of either way but at least it's still free.
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Been happily off discord ever since the CEO's disastrous, anti-encryption speech at the "Protecting Children Online" hearing. Evil little dude, that guy is.
https://revolt.chat/ Cope, but would be good for this to become a thing.
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I just noticed this today.. I barely even use discord. Now I really don't like it.
Anyone got a recommendation for an open source alternative to discord? Basically just need voice, text, and screen sharing for a group of friends of like, 5-6 at most on at any time.
Even if I gotta pay to host a server, I’d rather do that than pay discord extortion money to avoid ads while still getting my data stolen.
I know it's still in development, but check out Revolt . It's basically Discord, but open source.
i looked into revolt and pretty concerned with these two stances of the project
We don't think federation is beneficial to Revolt
We have a variety of monetisation ideas lined up internally, with these, it is not my intention for us to paywall features and I find it unlikely we would ever do that considering it would contradict what we're trying to achieve.
like, to me it seems they want to get communities invested and then later monetize in ways those communities don't yet know about?? idk that sounds extremely sus. especially when competing instances will fight against network effects with no federation.
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I personally use Matrix. I haven't gotten very far into using it but it does have groups, text, calls, and encrypted messaging so I'd say check it out.
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