• @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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    110 days ago

    Use Mastodon. You can use a server outside of your country. And even if your country attempts to find the operator, 10% of their global turnover of zero is still zero.

          • Ulrich
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            610 days ago

            Discord is not really intended for “friends and families”, it’s for communities.

            • knightly the Sneptaur
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              1710 days ago

              It’s not really for communities either, it’s for locking communities into a corporate platform.

              • Ulrich
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                710 days ago

                …so it’s not for communities, it’s for communities…?

                  • Ulrich
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                    110 days ago

                    Who are the shareholders going to exploit then?

              • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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                10 days ago

                thats why right wingers love FB as well and over reddit, to. that way they can delete comments control things without having the discord admins hovering over them.

            • @big_slap@lemmy.world
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              810 days ago

              yeah, I get it. I told people one year for my bday to download the app for me to get most of my circle on it. most did haha

          • @msage@programming.dev
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            610 days ago

            My mother and sister is on my homeserver.

            Also my SO.

            And my every friend.

            And we use Jitsi for calls during gaming or whatnot.

          • mesa
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            410 days ago

            All it took for me is discord going down for a couple hours a couple of weeks ago. Now about half my friends went to it. All it will take is a small push or down time and they will need their fix somehow lol.

        • Ulrich
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          1210 days ago

          Unfortunately there’s not really anything that comes close to Discord.

          Revolt is the closest, as it’s open source and self-hostable but still lacks many of the features and isn’t federated.

              • Cethin
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                310 days ago

                I only used it once a while ago. What doesn’t it do that Discord does that you also need?

                • Ulrich
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                  9 days ago

                  Most everything. It’s also very complicated to use and slow as shit. You should try actually using it and find out for yourself.

          • Executive Chimp
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            310 days ago

            Everyone keeps recommending Revolt but I tried it last week and it’s janky as hell and the voice chat just straight up didn’t work. This wasn’t just me, too. Our whole group tried it and gave up.

        • @kitnaht@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. IT DO! Discord is mostly used for gaming.