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Discord’s secret weapon against open source competitors (it’s PluralKit) (medium.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Grail@aussie.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org
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Why are FOSS platforms like Matrix having such a hard time getting users to migrate from Discord? Because of PluralKit.

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The difference:

  • Discord, Facebook/WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. are selling your data... to select customers.
  • Matrix, Mastodon, Lemmy, etc. are giving your data for free... to everyone.

Like, if there was a stalker wanting to attack you in particular... neither is good, but one is worse than the other.

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How matrix with its end to end encryption giving my data to everyone????

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Matrix encrypts by default when starting a "DM room", otherwise it doesn't force encryption, only allows it.

All the unencrypted rooms out there, are susceptible of getting their contents scraped by either the server, a federated server, an invited user, or even anyone.

Encrypted rooms, can also get scraped unless they're set with security in mind (only send to validated users, make it invite only, don't show past history).

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lemmy is not enriching the data you put on it with data that Lemmy purchases from third parties, in order to create a user-product to sell to advertisers. Meta and Discord are (obviously Meta much moreso). That's why advertisers buy from them instead of just scraping your posts themselves.