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- kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish13 days
ive seen at least 5 alternatives being parrotted after the discord data leaks a few months ago. everyone sweared they gonna change, nothing happened.
- 13 days
Because Discord gave up on age verification when they saw the backlash.
But it’s only a matter of time before they try again, or before the enshittification becomes unbearable. And in any case, it’s always good to have a more diverse ecosystem with active alternatives to any one product.
- 12 days
They didn’t give up, they pushed it back 6 months to wait out the shitstorm.
- 14 days
I just want one of these Discord alternatives to code up a “migrate-from-Discord” script that admins can use to scrape all of their messages and media, save out their channel structure and access rules, and pull their user list for later mapping, and box it all up into some sort of standards-compliant package.
- uxellodunum@lemmy.mlEnglish14 days
The closest modern communications standard would be Matrix (which is why I can take what I have in Commet (client) and move it to Sable or FluffyChat (other clients) for instance, because they follow the same standard).
Centralized platforms do not deal with open standards because it literally goes against their premise - User retention via vendor lock-in. You can scrape to an extent, it won’t ever be perfect, and if everyone did it, it would get patched in some way to be limited.
This was always the Discord trap though - Discord is a treasure-trove of knowledge that’s now behind a walled garden thanks to “community leaders” who thought they understood the importance of community longevity. Many are scraping whatever they can moving from one walled-garden just to move to another - Make it make sense.
- 14 days
I know why Discord isn’t offering that, but there are at least three FOSS options (Element, Stoat, and Spacebar) that could really use a good way to get content off of Discord and into an open format (sure, Matrix is a solid option). Any data that can be accessed publicly can be scraped, even if it’d take a while. I think one of those teams should be considering this.
