I’ve never used discord but there’s a couple communities I want to browse that apparently only are in discord. The official app seems like shit privacy wise so I don’t want to install it. What alternatives are recommended? Or some work around?

  • robolemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    17 days ago

    They have a web ui that works well enough with no need to install anything.

    I only know of one other discord client and it’s just a wrapper around the official one anyway.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      Yeah. Use website in Firefox and turn up all the tracking blockers + use Ublock + noscript. Firefox on Android let’s you install websites as self contained “apps” on your home screen too, where it runs in full-screen like a native app (which is all the native app does in the first place, it’s a lazy ass electron container).

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    17 days ago

    BetterDiscord is one, and it supports plugins. Note tho: Discord has some sloppy inconsistent management so they might just randomly decide to ban that client one day

    • JakenVeina@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      Officially, all third-party clients are already against ToS. Only bot accounts are officially allowed to use the public API.

      • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        Officially they’re also acting according to their own tos, law and are transparent. But in reality, they don’t, don’t properly and don’t.

        Hence why I alluded to their mess of management rather than their tos. It’s there mostly for appearance and decoration.