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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Again. What?

Discord is a DM platform first, a public space second. And it's way better at being the first, than the second.

Providing support on discord is stupid, it's only semi-public and hides solutions to already solved problems beyond the reach of search engines and real public platforms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

a public space second.

Discord is NOT a public space.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Well yeah. But it sure likes to pretend at being one.

[+] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not trying to convince anyone to ditch discord.

You pushed the point that "it doesn't need to be secure because it's all public" which is complete bullshit. Not everything on discord is public.

That its secondary ability to function as a public space has over the years become the standard way to provide a point of communication in a manner that tries to fit the round peg into the square hole, is not an excuse for their privacy policy to be as crappy as it is.