𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆Aug 20, 2023

Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord

https://lemmy.world/post/3478399

Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord - Lemmy.World

This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won’t tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole unavailable to the outside world and everything shared is a privacy nightmare. Posting this, pinning it here, and locking it is one of the biggest trolls possible. It pisses me off every time I log in. “Everyone else does it” is the excuse of idiots. Discord makes absolutely no sense to anyone that actually cares to look into it, read the user agreement, and ask sane questions about what they are doing.

Show threadinspxtrAug 20, 2023
I wonder whether matrix and/or matrix bridge has been mentioned before. Maybe discord + matrix bridge is a good enough compromise for reachability.
Show threadCorrodedAug 20, 2023
To get the privacy benefits wouldn’t you need to forego bridges?
Show threadinspxtrAug 20, 2023

I have never hosted a bridge before so I may get things wrong. Please correct me where I do.

I assume this channel may be public, so any privacy concern needs to take that into account.

In terms of implementation, I was thinking that there would be 1 channel hosted on discord and 1 room on matrix being bridged together.

The benefit is that users of matrix and users of discord can participate in the same conversation without having to create an account on the other service. That way, matrix users don’t have to create a discord account or download discord app, which would be a good outcome in terms of privacy.

Show threadninchukaAug 21, 2023
Yeah never consider public rooms to be private, who knows whether there is a bit logging every message sent or whatnot
Show threadinspxtr
true, it’s more about the service provider that users trust. For example, some might be less comfortable with creating Discord acc, which sometimes requires a phone number to be associated. I’d also venture a guess that some users may not be comfortable with Discord logging their IP address or certain metadata captured when they log in to their Discord acc.
Aug 21, 2023 at 10:58pmWeb