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2026-01-22 02:36:51

:Fire_Enby: Praxrizz :Fire_Enby: :therian:

praxis@pounced-on.me

I think I'm mainly done with open source advocacy. Like don't get me wrong, fedi is the only social media I want, Lemmy is the only reddit I want. Our communities in working federated internet just hit different

But Signal is nowhere ready to replace Telegram, and even on it's own linking identity to phone number and making message history and sticker subscriptions irrecoverable is ridiculous. And they don't seem too interested in catching up to Telegram.

And so far nothing is capable of really replacing Discord. Steam had a good attempt but then they remembered they aren't a chat platform and stopped developing features. Revolt/Stoat is a shell of what it could be. Teamspeak might be capable of penetrating the market again, but I think they're trying to leverage too much legacy code. And don't get me started on unreliable matrix.

At this point, if discord dies, it doesn't die because we've slain it. It dies because of it's gluttony having gained the ire of one too many governments or 3 letter agencies; it dies because it's undergrowth gets exposed more widely instead of on rather limited channels like NTTS. We do not have dragonslayers (in the chat app niche) and I'm tired of pretending we do.

2026-01-22 02:47:12

[object Dragon]

107d@merping.synth.download

@praxis

Riot/Ferret

do you mean revolt/stoat or

2026-01-22 02:48:04

ulveon.net (on derg.social)

ulveon@derg.social

@praxis@pounced-on.me my thoughts on "secure open source": https://ulveon.net/p/2025-12-03-the-secure-open-source-fallacy/

And on privacy and security (and why Signal is not actually that good) https://ulveon.net/p/2025-05-25-effective-security-beyond-encryption/

2026-01-22 04:07:29

Ferret

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

@:Fire_Enby: Praxrizz :Fire_Enby: :therian: I don't understand people talking about Matrix being unreliable.

2026-01-22 04:08:04

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entailment@woof.tech

@praxis i saw this post the other day that has a similar good point about Discord: https://slugcat.systems/post/24-12-12-the-rise-and-future-fall-of-discord/

2026-01-22 04:53:17

catraxx :antifa:

catraxx@tech.lgbt

@praxis What does Discord actually do which is unique? I never quite understood.

When i was still begrudgingly using it i had like 50 servers open, 48 of which were permanently silenced because i only went there for one bit of information and then never again. The rest looked and felt like a default chat client, bloated with ads.

The best argument i ever heard for Discord is "There are people there."

2026-01-23 23:09:25

Xenia

Drspawndisaster@mastodon.social

@praxis desktop Linux spent 30 years as a joke and then the steam deck happened.

If discord falls, matrix has the opportunity to pick up a lot of contributors.