kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
How has the grocery life been? There are few better places to people-watch than watching hungry people shop for food.
I don't quite know what you mean by people-watching, unless you mean watching people {shop} for seconds while I'm stocking, but, it's doing alright. I'm on the verge of wanting to do something else; not in the store I work, I mean somewhere else.
Discord’s two-key verification system is the reason I have been locked out of the app since the start of the last DD Awards. The app’s security is so good, it even locks out end users.
And they say using your phone number's your only way of getting into Discord. ((shrug))
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I'm on XMPP and Matrix (not the movie) now. Yes, they're less common than Discord, but at least these platforms, err… protocols don't mine my messages, invade my privacy, or threaten to ban you using third-party clients/extensions. Plus, I told my friends over at a cartoon server where to find me if they're interested.
I liked Discord for the way it was, and I could handle the platform just easily fine. However, concerning T.O.S changes {off-platform behavior, medical misinformation (I assume even by accident), Discord team now monitoring voice channels} and not having a function to preview any server/guild before joining them besides the public ones in Discovery (I told members of a webcomic server this) are the reason why I'm still choosing to avoid the platform. Me spending time for only my spring break with no further plans was justified.
No plans to move on to big-name social media in addition (Mastodon now counts as that).
Tried out direct competitors, Revolt{.chat} and Guilded; they have their fair share of problems as well. Guilded looked more interesting, but is buggy, owned by Roblox Corp., can mine messages, uses a few gigabites of RAM and hasn't had a search function in years. If you have to use Ctrl+F and scroll up to see the messages you're searching for, that's how you know the platform's bad. Revolt is slightly buggy, and has good customization options but you can't change your online status and the search function doesn't stick with you when you scroll down on the sidebar wanting to search for a keyword. I think Revolt also treats privacy as an afterthought as well.
So, yeah. I like how there are many ways to connect with people, even through competitors. Though, when it comes to being social, XMPP and Matrix are the way to go for me. Oh, and select forums also.