• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
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    I suppose the next question is where will everyone go? If they wanted to keep kids safe this ain’t it because they’ll go somewhere else anyways. So it’s a lose/lose for everyone.

    Possibly a win for companies if they want to harvest data/sell it.

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      Uh…anywhere? There are plenty of alternatives that are less bloated and less shitty and faster.

      I honestly don’t even know why people use it.

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        The only times I’ve ever used Discord are for things that really should have been on a forum, issue tracker, or something like a lemmy community in the first place.

        I hope this causes a return to sanity, but I’m not holding my breath.

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        Ima be honest here. The last messaging service I used was Facebook back in 2012 prior to discord. And prior to Facebook was MSN messenger lol I really just don’t know what’s available. I’ll have to go do some reading

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          IRC is still alive and well, team speak for voice chats. Hell, Nextcloud even has these, as well as video calls.

        • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org
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          yeah i actually just discovered this revival right before posting my comment. It’s really neat! Xfire and Discord are always linked in my mind, because i literally first installed Discord because my friends were moving over from Xfire. These days, Steam Chat can do almost everything that Xfire did, so there isn’t REALLY a reason for it to exist. But i love seein that ancient UI.

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            I had like 2 friends back in my CS 1.6 days that insisted on Xfire, but I paid for a Mumble server shortly after that. Might self host one again…