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Comment by drob518

1 day ago

Yep, indeed. Which is the main reason I don’t run Discord.

I strongly doubt that. The main reason you don’t run it is likely because you don’t have strong motivation to do so, or you’d push through the odd start up time.

  • For me, I really dislike the fact Discord is completely closed off to the wider internet, and Discord, the company, has absolute control: from a privacy and freedom of speech point of view. This goes against the core ideas of a free and open internet.

    I'll admit that the Discord service is really good from a UX point of view.

  • Just going to throw out an anecdote that I don’t use it for the same reason.

    It’s closed unless I get a DM on my phone and then I suffer the 2-3 minute startup/failed update process and quit it again. Not a fan of leaving their broken, resource hogging app running at all times.

    • It would fail to auto update as a system installed package, because that requires a system level package install.

      It would not fail to update if installed as a user installed flatpak.

      Many apps are this way now.