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This is the key part here. There's nothing wrong with using Discord to chat about random stuff. If you're talking to your friends about your latest night out or
by CM30 2y ago
This is the key part here. There's nothing wrong with using Discord to chat about random stuff. If you're talking to your friends about your latest night out or playing online games with a community, then Discord is fine.
The issue is how some communities use it as a wiki, documentation and forum replacement for information that should be available on the public internet. This is a huge problem for speedrunning and modding communities, which seem to love using Discord and Google Sheets and other awkward 'must know the link to access' tools for information that should probably be in a wiki somewhere.
- sneak 2y agoThis is untrue. Talking to friends in DM on non-e2ee platforms normalizes ubiquitous surveillance of friendship interactions and makes all of society worse. Don’t be reachable on non-e2ee DM systems. Delete your account.
- jmprspret 2y agoThis also has the added benefit of weeding out people who can't be bothered to put in just a little effort to keep in touch with you. Shows who your true friends are. It's actually sad. But an eye opener ;)
- CM30 2y agoFair point. I guess a better explanation would be "don't use messaging apps for publicly accessible content, regardless of if the system is open source, federated or e2ee". The same general issue would apply if these communities used Matrix or Signal or Telegram or WhatsApp or whatever else.
- beretguy 2y agoI don’t disagree, but challenge is getting other people getting onboard of another system.