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Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won't tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole unavailable to the outside world and everything shared is a privacy nightmare. Posting this, pinning it here, and locking it is one of the biggest trolls possible. It pisses me off every time I log in. "Everyone else does it" is the excuse of idiots. Discord makes absolutely no sense to anyone that actually cares to look into it, read the user agreement, and ask sane questions about what they are doing.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand a large number of apps request phone number to log in, but that doesn't explain why it's a weird line to draw to not engage with that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so you don't understand that it's been normalized?

That's why its a weird line to draw. Cause its considered normal here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand it's been normalized. I'm trying to figure out my hangup with the word "weird"... I guess ultimately I don't consider it weird for someone to stand against something that's normalized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t consider it weird for someone to stand against something that’s normalized

I mean, I agree with that for some things. Like I think its fucking weird that people do celebrity worship, but that's also considered pretty normal.

but I think in the case of using your phone number to sign in, it's normalized because its been shown to work as a log in/sign up method. In the US phone numbers are treated like a form of ID as you're assumed to have a phone in your name, that can be attached to you and your identity. It's so common place that it's encouraged to do things that way - so its weird to draw the line there because its then also preventing you from using something, even though the only hold up is that it's something most people do with no issue.