If you "install" #Discord as a desktop app on macOS using "Add to Dock" from Safari, you can open multiple windows at once. So frustrating that you can't do this with the macOS or iPasOS app.
@sharan My server has a decent amount of gamers and/or masto users, though it's not quite specifically for that! We're chill though, LGBT friendly and all
ok that's eerie. Apparently the Mee6 bot that we use on #discord to assign roles now has built-in ai, so I tried asking it why there's still topless inequality and it immediately spat out this response. o.o (honestly I thought it would just see the word 'nipple' and refuse to answer)
I still don't understand how projects that are strongly focused on open-source and promote the open-source movement have their official support channel or discussion platform set as Discord.
@lcheylus I always have mixed feelings about such things.
While I’m fully into #FOSS and #federated services, I can also see the benefits of major and proprietary solutions from a beginners perspective.
I think it is always about the targeted user base and how to make it comfortable to them.
I can also see this with #BoxyBSD, where I’m targeting beginners who cannot afford virtual machines to learn and practice. However, to help them, you need to catch them at their starting point, which is mostly a well known service like Discord, Twitter etc. Beginners are not aware of the Fediverse, Matrix, IRC and all the other solutions. It won’t provide them or the communities to exclude them.
Moving code away from GitHub may reduce the visibility of projects and potential contributions. Moving support to nerd services may exclude them. Forcing them to deal with it, results in dead useraccoujts in long-term.
Teach them at the beginning, show them alternatives and as soon as they do it by their own will, they will switch and contribute.
I really love free and opensource software, projects and services but it does not mean that we should force people to avoid it. We should more be happy about people that decide to publish and contribute their code to the community in any way and also providing any solution to provide feedback, support etc. Decisions to a specific solution like Discord may have several reasons like not being aware of it, not having the time for it, no personal needs to deal with it (if it works, it works). Not everyone is deeply into FOSS or cares about it.
I always contributed heavily into opensource within the last years and was only on Twitter and never saw the needs for Matrix or Fediverse. I simply didn’t had the time nor the fun to deal with it - nowadays I’m running my own instances.
To this day, I can’t get how #Discord works and why everyone is raving about it. I mean, I am following several communities on Discord and know the basics around, but for the life of me, given the chance, I won’t ever choose that flashy thing over some more sane means of online communication.
Am I the last person standing who does not get the hype around Discord? I mean, why is everyone hosting servers there - are they free forever or something?
@preslavrachev I can’t deal with Discord, so I gave up on all communities, that rely on it. I can't handle the flashy behaviours and „noise“. I prefer calmer community tools like Discourse.
I want to ask a question to the #Headscale community which is on #Discord, and it's asking me to "verify my identity via my phone" before I can even post once? What the heck is this? I've used Discord before and have never been asked this. Is this a "server" setting or a new Discord thing?
In any case it makes really not want to participate there. Please #FOSS people, what the heck, why this love of Discord?
Ironically I got less pushback signing up for a functional @tailscale account 🤦♂️
Message-Scraping, User-Tracking Service Spy Pet shut down by Discord.
Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly 3 billion messages and details on 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down. Discord said that the company's safety team had been "diligently investigating" Spy Pet and that it had banned accounts affiliated with it.