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[–] einlander@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

Why would I trust these specific old men with my data and to keep kids safe?

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Honestly I'll just go back to IRC.

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Matrix can bridge to IRC

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

What was the main problem that eventually made everyone move from it ? I remember back in my teen days it was Teamspeak, Skype and IRC. Somehow I got by with mostly Skype so don't have much experience with it.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

There wasn't one. They're still around and people still idle.

Discord is the same thing but with added features like voice, photos, gifs, and other services.

Under the hood, it's just updated IRC with analytics

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Check out The Lounge or Convos if you are willing to use a web client. They display history, images on channels, allow uploads, preview URLs and have push notifications.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

lets hope for a competitor that doesn't shoot themselves in the foot 🙏
discord also shot themselves in the foot too

[–] FishFace@piefed.social -1 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Look none of us like Peter Thiel but him being an investor in a company used by discord is barely a story

The bigger story here IMO is that discord may be trying to move away from their home grown easily circumvented system, so get verified while you still can without compromising yourself.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

How do you even do it though lol, it hasn't asked me too.

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