Please note this is just a beta and there are going to be bugs, but it works and it works nicely. Have fun.

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    11 months ago

    Oh and please note that bugs should be reported in #sync-support-and-bugs in the discord: https://discord.gg/qYWxqva or the github.

    LJ has been working very hard - this is beta 24 from no betas a week ago.

    And again, it is a beta - some features like Ad-free IAP and submissions are not there, but they will be in there eventually.

      • NevermoreOP
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        2311 months ago

        A lemmy community for bugs woud be very hard to keep track of. Discord allows segmented, real time conversations which is simply better.

          • armrods
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            511 months ago

            Not everything has to be decentralized or federeted

            • @[email protected]
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              I agree that not everything has to be decentralized, but why not replace Discord with Matrix given hew mature and nice Matrix is? IMO, this is one of those things that should be decentralized.

              Edit: for everyone asking why, read https://cadence.moe/blog/2020-06-06-why-you-shouldnt-trust-discord. The main point I care about is that as a free-to-use app with no ads, Discord is not profitable despite the Nitro subscribers. The operating cost to keep up with millions of messages a day is not cheap. They will, at some point, sell our data.

            • 👁️👄👁️
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              Yeah it should. Also Discord is a plague. Though tbh Element is still years behind Discord which is unfortunate.

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              11 months ago

              Why move away from discord lol? It’s not like people just moved from reddit for fun. Discord doesn’t have the same issues people left reddit for.

              • @[email protected]
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                111 months ago

                Discord doesn’t have the same issues people left reddit for.

                Yes, yes it does. Both Reddit and Discord don’t allow 3rd party clients. It’s just that Discord never allowed any in the beginning. The arguments of a centralized content silo applies to Discord too.

                It’s not like people just moved from reddit for fun.

                Neither are people moving away from Discord for fun.

                By the way, read the edit on my parent comment.

                • @[email protected]
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                  111 months ago

                  It’s just that Discord never allowed any in the beginning

                  Yes. It also never needed third party apps because it works well, has good accessibility features, etc… while reddit doesn’t. I honestly don’t think that third party apps are a necessity most of the time. Reddit is just a relatively unique platform where they had a thriving third party scene and took them away without any intention to add the features that the official app lacked.

    • @[email protected]
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      1711 months ago

      Thanks for the info, I was looking for where I could buy Pro (ad-free) and I couldn’t find it.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Somewhere else in this post, it’s mentioned that an ad-free iap is coming later. Only option at the moment is ultra.

        • ijeff
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          11 months ago

          According to ljdawson, “later” is apparently pretty damn soon. It’s already in the latest update!

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      Seeing all the usernames hosted at different servers feels refreshing. As the internet should be, distributed.

      • @fuzzzerd
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        Boggles my mind that no other client does that for users or communities. Definitely glad to have it working this way in sync.