You know how people looked at the dumb decisions of #StocktonRush and said don’t get in the #Titan ?
Don’t get into an #ElonMusk #Tesla or #SpaceX
I’m pretty happy just using Lemmy and discord, I deleted Twitter and reddit because of recent events, it’s definitely helped keeping my screen time down and discord typically leads to more fulfilling conversations imo
You might want to also replace Discord if you care about your data.
I’d love to, but there’s no equivalent. My friend group and I need voice channels with ACL, streaming support, video chat support, and webhook/bot support.
Guilded or Revolt seem like good alternatives if you can convince your entire community to move over, might still have privacy issues but I’m not really sure.
Check out Revolt, it’s basically a Discord clone without the bullshit. Matrix is getting close to being full replacement, but still lacks some features.
Unfortunately, Discord can’t be replaced right now. All my gaming friends are using it and I don’t see any FOSS software that can replace it right now.
If you care about keeping your data private then why are you on the fediverse? Everything here is public. Anyone can datamine if they want. And you can’t even delete your data if you want (since there are backups on different instances). Even your DM’s can be read by the admins of your or the recipients instance.
That’s the purpose of public forum. There is a difference between Fediverse selling your data and someone scraping comments you made publicially. They also offer Send Secure Message if the user has added their Matrix handle. Which offers E2E by default for private messages.
I also believe the delete issue was resolved, but not sure if it was merged already.
Honestly, I’d leave Discord if I could back up my chat history. I have a chat with my boyfriend going on for two years.
Discord doesn’t offer the functionality natively, but you can try DiscordChatExporter.
Any replacement for Discord is going to run into the AIM problem. Even years after nobody was on AOL, AIM remained the biggest instant messenger client simply because it had the most users. A big factor in it losing its dominance, though, was Trillian. Once you could have all your accounts in one place, it kind of made it starkly obvious which ones were redundant. At the same time, it made the barrier for entry feel lower.
Instead of needing different clients for ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, and MSN, you could have it all in one place, packaged with a totally garbage IRC client. So if you had friends on, say, ICQ, there was little reason not to register an account.
This is what we need with Discord. A client that people can migrate to because it’s objectively better, which allows them to connect both to Discord and to an open source Discord killer (a Disczilla, if you like). That way nobody has to convince whole ass communities at a time. You can slowly osmosize over as the client gets popular without having to have that critical mass from day 1 to draw people.
I just need a good worldnews and news sub on lemmy and I’ll be set. I enjoy following the Ukraine war through the worldnews sub.
Shamless plug !globalnews@vlemmy.net
this is genuinely mind boggling. So he plans on eventualy making twitter pay to play!?
Yes, sort of. Elmo saddled the company with $12.5 billion in debt while alienating the advertisers which was where the majority of Twitter’s revenue came from. Revenue has to come from somewhere. BuuuUUUUUuut, Elmo is in over his head, doesn’t really understand Twitter’s business model, and is making decisions by the seat of his pants. The answer to every question may as well be yes, no, maybe.
I do not understand his logic. It could be due to coding issues but his vague statement plus all the antics since he took over is just very suspect. Feels like he is working on another money grab idea.
He’s probably not really focused on Twitter but focused on using Twitter staff for getting X.com ready so they do a huge rebrand.
That does make sense, which haven’t they been running on a skeleton crew for months now? Also, what is up with the weird obsession with “X”?
Maybe he can’t upgrade to Wayland.
(sorry about the unsolicited Linux joke)
Twitter went from like 7000 employees down to 1000. So skeleton crew for sure. There’s also speculation that they didn’t migrate all the data off Google cloud services so they lost a bunch of data as the contract ended June 30th.
As for the X thing no idea his obsession I’d probably guess he thinks he’s like the modern day iron man or professor Xavier for the gifted with x men.
I’ll give credit where credit is due he’s really good at being able to raise capital but in terms of actual business execution he falls flat to me.
I suspect his “logic” is that most users only read & do not interact or post (IIRC the general rule for socials is 90/9/1), so in addition to whatever technical reason, he thinks this is a genius way to get more subscribers.
Fucking genius move, so glad he’s fired everyone who would disagree.
It’s about making it more difficult to get access to download all of Twitter for use in training AI. chatGPT was trained using Twitter and Reddit. And large language models like chatGPT are HUGE money makers and have insane potential. The AI industry is exploding right now, so Twitter, Reddit, and others are adjusting how you can access their content so they can charge big companies money for the right to use their data.
The irony is that Twitter is the one that’s causing the performance issues for itself https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723
#Sorry, I couldn’t #read all of that. Too many #hashtags in the #way of the #tweet.
#Lemmy #FuckTwitter #PostedOnMyIphone #ihavenoideawhatimdoing
