663
Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade
(www.neowin.net)
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
663 points (97.6% liked)
Privacy
32482 readers
229 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Discord has a monopoly on the organized group chat platform, there isn't a competent competitor, or at least none I'm aware of
Matrix.org (Try Element)
Revolt.chat
I must say that Matrix is so competent that it can compete against whatsapp and Discord at the same time
I don't know why so many people in the fediverse consider Element a competitor to Discord. I regularly use Element, but the non-text functionality just isn't ready to point people at as an alternative. They will have a bad time and write off Element potentially forever if they are shown that app as an alternative right now.
Some examples of functionality that is important to discord but is not a good experience or is not ready in element yet: voice/video channels, screen sharing, custom emotes and reactions, channel organization and browsing (their latest attempt just doesn't do it for me).
Additionally, there are times when encryption just has a hiccup still or someone sets it up wrong and things can be messy because of it.
I really like element and they've done a good job so far, but It's just not ready for people to be pushed there from discord.