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Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app (www.theverge.com)

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[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Discord is an absolute piece of garbage, it's not a good messaging app, definitely not a good place to host a community (seriously, I don't understand why some communities saw Discord as an alternative after the Reddit API changes), and most importantly, it's spyware. The company doesn't have a business model and it was founded by a guy who is notorious for creating random shit that's not economically sustainable at all. I don't understand why anyone would use this shit. This video outlines everything that's wrong with Discord: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uvNkdAggUGU

Switch to Revolt or Matrix

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

I don't understand why Revolt decided to reinvent the wheel and not use Matrix. They could've been a great alternative server and/or UI.

[-] tcely@fosstodon.org 9 points 11 months ago

Why don't you ask the Matrix team why they decided to re-invent XMPP and add a stupid HTTP API?

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Because they didn't reinvent xmpp, they reinvented Google Wave.

A lot of Matrix.org is inspired by what Wave could have been - although we are running late with threading (but some work is happening currently there). From our perspective, one of the biggest gaps was the lack of bridging in Wave to other existing comms interfaces (eg email) - as well as the quirky UX.

Arathorn on Feb 18, 2018 on HackerNews

[-] tcely@fosstodon.org 1 points 11 months ago

I take it you weren't aware that Google Wave was based on XMPP.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/757722/opensource-subnet-nine-new-apps-that-show-off-the-power-of-google-wave.html

@onlinepersona

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you, I did not know that!

Very interesting.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Both XMPP and Matrix can be used for real-time messaging, but they are very different unerneath.

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