Admittedly I'm becoming increasingly frustrated that folks can go on and on about the evils of Reddit and yet continue to sequester all the knowledge about their interests and hobbies in obscure chats, allowing Reddit to go uncontested in being the source of publicly accessible info on some of those topics.
Yes I know there's definitely an element of "and yet you participate in society" in this, but that doesn't really lessen the frustration.
Thank you discord for making their platform like everything else, now if you have a rare tag, you will be hunted down until you give it to an even more extreme level than twitter! OH I almost forgot how people will now try to get into partner accounts and secure rare usernames as well since those accounts are one of the first to get the tag system! Thank you discord. Very cool.
If you think you will be a target, turn off SMS 2FA in case of sim swapping, set DM spam filter to all DMs and make sure you stay aware because scams are going to show up exponentially.
If you think that they will turn back on it, dream on. This came from the co-founder so unless there is a full blown riot, they will move forward.
Been chatting in one-on-one / DM chats on #discord recently.
Took me a while to realise that I wasn't doing it on #mastodon/#fediverse: The people I was chatting with also have accounts here, but who'd use the DM's interface for chat?!
The chat situation here probably needs some polish. It's literally got me sitting on another platform just for basic chat.
>"we have found a solution to discord discrims being slightly confusing to ppl who think 4 numbers are too confusing"
>ooh boy I'm excited to hear about how they retained the ability for people to identify as their name instead of shoving funny numbers or characters on the end
@tupper Discord has moved from being a simple and fast gaming communication tool to an everything-community-social-networking-app. And you can tell whoever their investors are slowly wants to see they can make money with it.
And they also trap decades of human knowledge never to be found by search engines.
The only Minor Threat recording I own is the CD with everything on it. It is exhausting to listen to it all. So I split my digital files into the original releases and it make it a more enjoyable listen. I do this with a lot of combined CDs, makes the experience better. #punk#HardcorePunk#DCHardcore#discord#DiscordRecoreds#MinorThreat
Young people: is it possible to completely mute a #Discord channel for notifications? I have muted them but #Obsidian’s server is using (at)everyone for their (frequent) release announcements and it’s obnoxious af to constantly have a red badge.
EDIT: server notification settings allow to suppress (at)here and (at)everyone! (Click thru to see reply with solution & screenshot)
“Oh I need to communicate with someone on Discord quickly, guess I’ll launch it. Oh, there’s an update available, so Discord prevents me from opening their appliaction.”
I agree completely with this. Using Discord instead of a dedicated forum (or other searchable, indexable site) is very bad for preservation of knowledge. At the bare minimum, you should be running an FAQ. But having a forum associated with that is a must. #gamedev#forums#discord
I understand the reason for this - organization and coordination are difficult tasks. And the team responsible for resolving conflicts should not itself be a source of misunderstanding and conflict.
For this purpose #discord is a very useful, but flawed tool. And alternatives (e.g. #Matrix, #IRC, #Email and #Jitsi) have their own issues - some are just down to network effects, others actually lack features making them less useful for coordination.
@0xabad1dea I guess #DIscord screwing with this setting is going to be its analog of #Twitter turning off reverse-chronological Home every fifth update.
And they didn't just change it for the default role, they changed it for every role on the Guilds I moderate. :headdesk:
"Infuriating! #Yahoo News tries to tar and feather Mastodon with Discord! Yet, this article is wrong on so many counts!
#Discord is not "distributed". It is a centralized and proprietary service run by Discord Inc. -- who have dropped the ball on moderation."
#Mastodon is decentralized and open source, and individual server admins are very active with #moderation. We put lots of effort into reporting...illegal material."