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Presumably GC wants to know why you hate Discord so much. You've spent a lot of words saying you don't like it, but haven't actually enumerated why.
by fastball 5y ago
Presumably GC wants to know why you hate Discord so much. You've spent a lot of words saying you don't like it, but haven't actually enumerated why.
- cybernautique 5y agoAh. That, I can do. Why I Hate Discord (A Manifesto) [Without Sources] Discord is aggressively proprietary. People ought to own their data, but Discord's architecture ensures everything gets hoovered into the mother-ship. At first, this was for nothing more than to facilitate their client-server communications model; recently, all of the hoovered data gets submitted to their AI moderation platform. (searched for sources on this but it was very hard to find anything. I remember talk about this ~c. Nov 2020, might be wrong) I should be able to modify an interface to my tastes. Modifying Discord is explicitly against their ToS, including their interface; attempting to do so will lead to a ban. Don't like their painted whore? Prefer to chat from your bespoke terminal? GTFO, Hammer & Chisel knows what's best for We Peons. Addenda: I find Hammer & Chisel developers and Discord admins to be disgusting. This is hearsay & personal opinion from my time hanging around the developer chats, but they all came across as nasty people. I, personally, believe many of the news reports surrounding the grooming controversies; searching "Discord admin controversy," "Discord allthefoxes controversy," "Discord cub policy," &c. turn up some relevant articles. Most of these articles are from low-quality reporting shops, but I buy in to the narrative.
- bobsmooth 5y agoAt any point Discord can decide they don't like your community and delete the entire thing without notice or archive.
- fastball 5y agoWhich as we recently saw with Freenode can also happen with IRC. Except IRC doesn't even save your community's history in the first place.