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[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 39 minutes ago (2 children)

What do i say to my friends to get them to leave? Ive already tried and they won't.

Sadly this change won't really affect them so they are not going to care. I've wanted to leave for a long time now.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 minutes ago

Just leave.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

What do i say to my friends to get them to leave? Ive already tried and they won't.

I just abruptly switched to Matrix and encouraged anyone who wanted to get a hold of me to do the same, held my ground and did not look back, now a good handful of my friends have a Matrix account.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 24 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck Discord is the common message now, but how about we amplify good alternatives? It'll be easier to tell Discord to fuck off if we're already set to move elsewhere.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Forum's, websites, all the shit we used to do.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The main thing I will miss from discord is the ease of streaming with a small group of friends. That was main reason we chose it over alternatives back in the day.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

In my day we just hung out with our friends....

/S

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 37 minutes ago

Discord has made communicating with a small group of friends who moved to different cities stay in touch daily while playing games, chatting in voice, and streaming stuff to share. Voice and text are great, but the streaming is how we share the in game moments we used to be able to see in person.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 hours ago

Fuck Discord

[–] comador@lemmy.world 46 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Bye bye Discord, you were never that good to begin with anyway.

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago

For me it was replacement for Skype when it became shit in 2016

[–] 51dusty@lemmy.world 29 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I will never understand the move from forums to discord. when discord is the only way to get assistance, I go find another product.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 14 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Discord is terrible for assistance.

Search is ineffective, you have to actually fight the UI to go back to older messages, depending on the device there are still somehow cases in which you can't go back to the beginning of a thread. But thank you for putting a huge reminder that I am currently "reading through old messages", silly me, why would I want to do that.

Oh, you're trying to scroll down through old posts? Let me suddenly refresh the list for no reason and bring you back to the most recent ones. Everything past the third screen might as well not exist anymore.

And of course, there is the slight problem of every useful info written there being completely invisible to the rest of the internet.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I hope me being in 30 different coomer discords helps me out

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They've outright said you will need to verify regardless of what your current usage is.

[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Everything I've said is everybody is categorize as a teen unless the provide face/ID verification. So anonymous should still be allowed in general, just not to servers/channels set as age restricted.

Correct, takeaway being that being they're not going to assume you're an adult because you're in a shit ton of coomer discords.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Shrek image still works?