Always Own Your Platform (2019)

Re:Always Own Your Platform (2019) by hammyhavoc on Saturday June 11, 2022 @06:22AM (#31703403)

Discord isn't even close to Element. Discord provides no privacy and a single point of failure. Matrix however will offer peer-to-peer lite servers running on-device that'll even work offline via BLE. Try using Discord during an invasion or natural disaster.

This idea that Discord is accessible globally is such an America-centric naïvete.

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Re:Always Own Your Platform (2019) by Klonoar on Monday June 13, 2022 @06:17AM (#31723343)

>Discord provides no privacy and a single point of failure.

Normal users fundamentally do not give a shit.

OP is contrasting Element as a client, and it is subpar in comparison to Discord's UI/UX. No protocol differences can paper over this.

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Re:Always Own Your Platform (2019) by hammyhavoc on Monday June 13, 2022 @07:33AM (#31723981)

Different strokes for different folks.

FWIW, you can bridge Discord to Matrix.

It is more valuable to me to have a single universal messaging app across all my devices than it is to corksniff over UX across a couple dozen apps.

Furthermore, I'm autistic, the UI of Discord is atrocious. Completely overwhelming.

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Re:Always Own Your Platform (2019) by Klonoar on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @02:47AM (#31735528)

None of these points even remotely refute my comment.

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