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  • Right, but with Matrix it’s a learning curve just to get started. That’s not to mention running a server either, discord makes that whole process much easier and done in a few buttons, and you don’t have to worry about uptime or any of that unlike self hosting, and it’s free. That makes it even harder to get friends onto the platform who don’t care about any of that, despite how good it may be considered to be.


  • Solivine@sopuli.xyztoAndroid@lemdro.idDiscord: Improving Our Mobile Experience
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    10 months ago

    It is absolutely a good messaging app. Valid place to host a community? Debatable, sure. In fact it’s so good, that Revolt is almost a direct copy of it as shown above.

    Whether that makes it a good app to use is another matter. Don’t know about the spyware, or it’s economic sustainability, but it has been around for years and years so it must be doing something right in terms of being sustainable, because it has sustained itself.

    Regardless of Discord though, the biggest issue with moving platforms is getting people to move there. It’s taken this long to get some of my friend group off of WhatsApp, and some still stubbornly stick to Facebook Messenger (true particularly at universities).








  • I can totally understand why it might feel that way, but for me it’s helped, and maybe I can tell you how.

    Whenever I get depressed or sad about my condition, it’s provided an additional stress outlet by being able to just cuddle something that I can put as the focus for it. There’s probably other healthy coping mechanisms you can do, but having something cute and cuddly as the focus also stops me from focusing on things I shouldn’t as much, it makes the world and the condition seem less scary to me. I mean how can it be scary right? There’s something cute and cuddly that has the same thing. I know that’s not unflawed logic, but it helps.