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klibertp on Aug 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus

What's wrong with Discord? Most of the projects I want to follow have Discord server, often connected with an IRC channel. I miss a few features from Slack, but in general I'm happy with Discord. It's still free from what I can see. So, what happened to make "OSS projects" etc. to stop using Discord? (Honestly asking, I don't follow Discord itself at all)

_abox on Aug 28, 2022 [–]

Discord data mines their users to hell and back and even scans your computer. https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_d...

It has no business being the default chat of open source projects. Especially when there's something amazing and fully free like Matrix.

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