That's true, I'll keep it in mind :)

That's totally understandable, I'm currently juggling the two. I also want to add that Signal is actually trustworthy. The FBI subpoenaed all info of a given user and they basically just gave the phone number and last login date, that's it. Mental Outlaw made a video about it

You may want to check out Element. It's privacy-respecting free and open source software. It's also part of the fediverse. If you check your Lemmy account settings you can see a field called “Matrix”. Element also uses Matrix so you can even link it to your Lemmy account if you want to. I've been using it for quite some time now and it's very usable! Discord's voice channels are called “video rooms” in Element and are still in beta, though. You can easily activate and use them but they aren't quite there yet. Still, worth a shot. Everything is E2EE encrypted

We don't even have karma here, sorry :(

Lots of people actually use Lemmy, Kbin and similar platforms as alternatives to Reddit and other traditional social media. It's great that you're open to donating/hosting, that's exactly the kind of person we need imo. I simply pointed out that too many people that are opposed to donating/hosting or simply don't know the necessity of it could become problematic. Basically encouraging people to help make the Fediverse even greater. I also stated that it will probably be fine, just as Mastodon is doing fine.

I checked out your cooking content and it's actually quite interesting! Keep up the good content :)

That is a fair point, I'll keep that in mind going forward, thank you

Edit: I do want to add that skimming the title and voting based off of that is not how it should work. I would at least scroll to the conclusion, even though this article admittedly doesn't really have one. Going forward I will make a clearly marked conclusion and summarize my pov better in the title to avoid confusion.

sounds like a normal Saturday, nothing to worry about

We meet again :) And we even agree on this, too! Yeah, it's madness. I know that it's a stereo type that people don't read TOS, T&C and privacy policies but when you have a product like Discord that is free one should realize that something's not right.

Glad we cleared this up :) Have an awesome night!

The Fediverse isn't confusing imo. I don't think it's overhyped at all, either. “Cool” doesn't even begin to describe how awesome all this is. Seeing the numbers go up and up, more people joining, making this a nice place fills my heart with joy. I just don't see it becoming a mainstream thing even though many people probably want it to be mainstream.

I would love to say this post was dead-wrong in a couple of years but only time will tell.

There actually are businesses, schools and more using Discord for their communications. Some people also use it as their primary messaging app and that really shouldn't be the case. For anything nonsensitive, it's not that big a deal. I would still recommend checking out privacy respecting alternatives like the end-to-end encrypted client Element that uses the Matrix protocol

Thought you were gonna rickroll me but this actually put a smile on my face. Thank you, kind stranger :)

already did but thanks :) it's sad when people can't keep their cool...

I agree that it would be beneficial to have this space be filled with people that understand it. What I meant by “I am not gate keeping the Fediverse” is that I don't want to be rude to new people by being annoyed at people not knowing stuff yet. It's okay to be new, it's okay to learn. I just want people to be willing to learn, that's all.

You didn't have to do that. If you feel embarrassed saying something rude, just don't but if you disagree with me, please do tell. I love hearing different perspectives, it makes you grow as a person.

Interesting take. I know about Meta and it wouldn't be out of character for the Dutch government to go into the federated direction. It would be really awesome to see more federated platforms catch on like Mastodon. We just have to be careful about letting companies like Meta in. What happened with XMPP can't happen with the Fediverse. I do admit that I probably make it out to be worse than it will be, I'm just the cautious kind. Let's hope that the Fediverse will be a nice place with nice people for a long time.

As you may have seen, that was my first blog post. It would be nice if you actually had something constructive to say. Care to elaborate on why you don't agree?

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Usually I would be open to an exchange of opinions. You not being able to stay calm and civil unfortunately prevents that.

Excuse me? I don't understand

It's not. I just wrote something about not using Discord and am currently working on a post about Element, the better Discord. https://uselessauth.btw.so/opinion-discord-shouldnt-be-your-main-messenger

I sadly have to agree... I see that this post has a 2:1 up/down ratio. I was hoping that people with different opinions would speak up more because I would love to hear them

I know all that but I honestly don't need to. Most of my time is spent inside anyway. Sometimes I take the train and spend a weekend some place nice but that really is all I need.