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Discord is not the problem. Discord isn’t loved by its users, there is no particular loyalty to it. The users like the product, but not the company that makes i
by zarzavat 3y ago
Discord is not the problem. Discord isn’t loved by its users, there is no particular loyalty to it. The users like the product, but not the company that makes it.
The problem is entirely that the alternatives are worse than Discord.
There’s no point in a boycott if there’s no destination to boycott to. The reason that the Digg->Reddit boycott was successful was that there was a better place to migrate to.
- lrvick 3y agoMatrix chose to prioritize security, censorship resistance, privacy, and decentralization and be a bit slower with UX, and Discord chose UX over everything else. In the short term people want pretty but enough bad outcomes will push people to consider that UX is not the only thing to value in a communications tool.
- Arathorn 3y agohttps://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/339#issuecomment-2052188082 https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/339#issuec... is another facet, too.