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a discord instance is just shifting to another central platform, albeit more permissive for now.

• haunter 3y ago
  They wrote Discourse not Discord, two different and unrelated things https://www.discourse.org/ https://www.discourse.org/ https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse
  • scrame 3y ago
    wow, my mistake. i even saw discourse and am so used to seeing everything move to discord that I think my brain just autocorrected it.
  • bombcar 3y ago
    Discourse itself is GPL, which means that even they shouldn't be able to revoke your license to the code.
    • eastbound 3y ago
      Next headline: GPL considered harmful, enables hate speech, favors extremist websites. I’m joking but GitHub was extremely woke in the two years before the acquisition. Banning open-source and making everything cloud-dependent would be a great way to ensure no ungodly website is run freely.
      • bombcar 3y ago
        esr or rms or someone had a good essay on why “use for good not evil” license clauses (banning use by militaries was a favorite) werent a great idea for free software.
  • zelphirkalt 3y ago
    Still does not make it less centralized though. If the majority of people is on that one instance of terrible forum, and you get banned, you are still going to have a hard time participating. And just like with other social media, you could of course host your own thing. But with that come content moderation obligations, if open to the public. A lot of work to create a parallel service.
• mbork_pl 3y ago
  Last time I checked, you can self-host Discourse.