LufyCZ

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep, guess that'd do it.

You'd still have to handle transferring keys across your devices, every time you login on a new one.

Also, searching would probably not work, at least as well as it does right now, since all messages are indexed on the discord side, which they wouldn't be able to do without seeing them. Everything would have to happen on device, meaning the devide would have to store all messages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

They are exchanged between the two devices.

Have you tried using Signal on desktop? It doesn't offer history syncing. Cross device for whatsapp for example is also a terrible experience. Unusable for something like Discord.

For a seamless experience Discord would probably have to store the keys themselves, defeating the whole point.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

You're actually joking with the "inviter providing the decryption keys to the invitee" part right?

The whole point why people use discord is that it's simple, this is a feature that'd only annoy the average person, and every single extra step is a disaster for user retention (look at any eshop study).

Stuff like this is completely irelevant to discord, the tiny subset of people who actually care will and should use Matrix / other solutions, because that's the people they were made for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Do you want to explain how to do it better?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (9 children)

That's how joining a server and being able to see history works

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but people don't like change, and I'd expect low level engineers to like it even less.

And looking at Linux, that shit still supports ancient hardware, being able to actually get rid of old code (that now has to be maintained alongside the new code) is gonna be a PITA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I'm just guessing, but what about backwards compatibility? Or cross-system compatibility?

For example, something like a syscall that's existed for 20 years. Changing it would break old apps.

Of course you could just keep the now "old" syscall and add new methods that replicate it's behavior, but haven't you then introduced bloat? More ways to do the same thing, meaning (eventually) more bugs, more fragmentation, memory usage, etc.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In that case I'm sure they're enjoying their 60 cents per month

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'd guess you'd be able to find a place or more like this in any bigish city

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (11 children)

You could actually run an actual legit miner on the thing, but yeah, you're not getting ahead your electricity usage.

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