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Warning: alternative Discord clients will get you banned. I got my account permanently banned for no other reason other than using a 3rd party client, even thou

Warning: alternative Discord clients will get you banned. I got my account permanently banned for no other reason other than using a 3rd party client, even though it (Ripcord) had insanely better UX.

snowpid 3y ago
Its so sad, that Discord is too small that the DMA kicks in and they would be forced to allow third party software.
- ezst 3y ago
  This is a community of Tech enthusiasts and yet, so many entertain this party of leopards eating people's faces by accepting anything less than open federated/P2P protocols. And so far, the DMA has only served to show malicious compliance on the side of Facebook. Nothing to better the lives of those who reject the walled gardens.
  - asgerhb 3y ago
    I don't want to speculate why this is the case, but tech enthusiasts rarely have the social capital that it takes to move friend groups or local forums over to specific platforms. The sad reality is that we can either accept the monopolizing forces like everyone else, or make ourselves apart from important social contexts.
  - deleted 3y ago
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  - xk_id 3y ago
    > This is a community of Tech enthusiasts Eh no, I’d say it’s precisely the subset of tech enthusiasts who aspire to work for a profitable company like discord, or even build one. There are a few of us here who reject corporate tech, but i don’t think it’s the majority.
  - ijxjdffnkkpp 3y ago
    I like to use Mumble https://www.mumble.info/ https://www.mumble.info/ for voice chat while gaming. It's really effective at voice chat and runs on a toaster. The server was really easy to set up on my raspberry pi. Is there another software that might be helpful that you can think of? Free software would be preferable
dancemethis 3y ago
They also do very, very little in terms of personal data protection.
- didntcheck 3y ago
  Which is often related - there's no way to batch delete your data, trying to do so with third-party tooling could get you banned, and once you're banned you can't delete it. In fact, you can't even delete messages from channels that an ordinary user has kicked you out of. And IIRC banned accounts still have unique public identifiers, so any PII can still be correlated (as opposed to the [deleted] pseudononymization that Reddit does)
k_roy 3y ago
I used cordless exclusively. I too got my main account banned as part of the initial round where they did this.
- didntcheck 3y ago
  When was that? It's a shame that they seem to have changed positions in the past few years https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438440
  - k_roy 3y ago
    Early 2021, as shortly after the dev shut down cordless. I don't think they've actually reversed position at all. I think the bottom line is they don't like anything that isn't their client because they can't pump nitro at you. And considering part of their TOS is basically they can do whatever they want, I don't know why people would even risk it anymore.

Warning: alternative Discord clients will get you banned. I got my account permanently banned for no other reason other than using a 3rd party client, even though it (Ripcord) had insanely better UX.

snowpid 3y ago

Its so sad, that Discord is too small that the DMA kicks in and they would be forced to allow third party software.

ezst 3y ago
This is a community of Tech enthusiasts and yet, so many entertain this party of leopards eating people's faces by accepting anything less than open federated/P2P protocols. And so far, the DMA has only served to show malicious compliance on the side of Facebook. Nothing to better the lives of those who reject the walled gardens.
- asgerhb 3y ago
  I don't want to speculate why this is the case, but tech enthusiasts rarely have the social capital that it takes to move friend groups or local forums over to specific platforms. The sad reality is that we can either accept the monopolizing forces like everyone else, or make ourselves apart from important social contexts.
- deleted 3y ago
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- xk_id 3y ago
  > This is a community of Tech enthusiasts Eh no, I’d say it’s precisely the subset of tech enthusiasts who aspire to work for a profitable company like discord, or even build one. There are a few of us here who reject corporate tech, but i don’t think it’s the majority.
- ijxjdffnkkpp 3y ago
  I like to use Mumble https://www.mumble.info/ https://www.mumble.info/ for voice chat while gaming. It's really effective at voice chat and runs on a toaster. The server was really easy to set up on my raspberry pi. Is there another software that might be helpful that you can think of? Free software would be preferable

dancemethis 3y ago

They also do very, very little in terms of personal data protection.

didntcheck 3y ago
Which is often related - there's no way to batch delete your data, trying to do so with third-party tooling could get you banned, and once you're banned you can't delete it. In fact, you can't even delete messages from channels that an ordinary user has kicked you out of. And IIRC banned accounts still have unique public identifiers, so any PII can still be correlated (as opposed to the [deleted] pseudononymization that Reddit does)

k_roy 3y ago

I used cordless exclusively. I too got my main account banned as part of the initial round where they did this.

didntcheck 3y ago
When was that? It's a shame that they seem to have changed positions in the past few years https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438440
- k_roy 3y ago
  Early 2021, as shortly after the dev shut down cordless. I don't think they've actually reversed position at all. I think the bottom line is they don't like anything that isn't their client because they can't pump nitro at you. And considering part of their TOS is basically they can do whatever they want, I don't know why people would even risk it anymore.