I mean what did you expect? It’s a corporate-owned platform so they’re in control, not you.

At least with Lemmy and other federated platforms you can have direct ownership over your data if you so wish. You can even spin up an entire instance and become your own boss.

As far as Discord goes, I’ve only rarely used it and can agree that the UI is trash but that’s about it.

I don’t know what to say. It’s a shit platform, don’t use it? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It’s weird to me when people come here to complain about Reddit.

But they already have APIs in a lot of cases, so just wire the application to the API? Why the random HTML/JavaScript trash?

By the way I’m a web application developer. I understand SaaS, infrastructure and all why it’s easier to wrap it all up but I don’t care. Why do application developers tolerate this?

On the flip side, applications now suck because everything is a shit web wrapper. Nobody wants to develop using native UI on desktop anymore.

Life hasn’t been thrilling overall but I suppose I’m proud of where I am professionally as a software developer.

I’ve been at my current job for a handful of years now and I finally have some cred; I’ve used it to push a lot of structural changes to our codebase and cut down on lots of nonstandard / custom code as well as repetitive code blocks.