cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17617609

They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won’t last. They’re going full Microsoft Skype mode and it’s only a matter of time.

  • Zworf@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    Good. I hope people will move away from it soon. I hate Discord for banning third-party clients and datamining my system for installed apps. So I’ve never really used it.

    It does mean I’m excluded from some FOSS projects’ support like Home Assistant but to hell with that :P

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
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      9 months ago

      Hopefully those FOSS projects will gain some sense as discord becomes more shit and will leave. One can hope.

      • ErilElidor@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        I never understood how a chatroom took off as a tool to document stuff. Who seriously thinks this is a good idea? 😵

        • dan@upvote.au
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          9 months ago

          If a project only has Discord for support (no docs, no bug tracker), I’m not using it. Don’t want to deal with trying to find anything in Discord.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      9 months ago

      ideally such changes to advertising and the ToS arbitration clause removing consumer rights will help give a lot of the open-source communities a gentle push to get off of discord. It’s become far too central to too many communities and is impossible to search for knowledge.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I’ve only ever used it in browser to limit what it can see on my machine. I was told by one of my coding professors that one of the signs of a virus is if it monitors what apps you’re running, I’ve been cautious ever since of anything that does that (obviously it isn’t the only sign and isn’t instant virus bin, like I have an app that monitors GPU usage and throttles apps to keep from cooking my machine)

      • dan@upvote.au
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        9 months ago

        never allowed 3rd party apps

        Facebook used to allow third party apps (e.g. Snaptu started as a third-party app before the acquisition) and exposed most of the functionality via their API, but it’s not really a thing any more after Cambridge Analytica - the API was locked down significantly. You can’t really have it both ways… Allowing third-party apps also allows those apps to scrape and store user info, which is what Cambridge Analytica did.