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https://infosec.exchange/@mainframed767/110566074308214399 https://infosec.exchange/@mainframed767/110566074308214399 > As they make it halfway across, the sco
by bentcorner 3y ago
https://infosec.exchange/@mainframed767/110566074308214399 https://infosec.exchange/@mainframed767/110566074308214399
> As they make it halfway across, the scorpion, named Reddit, poisons the frog they were riding on. Killing them both.
> Seeing this betrayal, the other frog on the shore turns to his scorpion, named Discord, and says "surely you see now and won't do the same to me." "Of course not" replies the scorpion.
- kmeisthax 3y agoIf you only care about API access, Discord already stung the frog on the shore years ago. Reddit was the last holdout for relatively open API policies on a large social platform. Hell, the Fediverse is chock full of people who oppose open access and thought it was unindexable. At one point someone was harassed for the audacity to try and make a Fediverse index. My Mastodon feed is full of people really worried that Meta might try to interop with the Fediverse, even though that's our win condition! For me personally, API access wasn't the final straw - it was Spez's repeated and malincompetent attempts to justify it. Actually, Spez has had a long history of abusing admin privileges for stupid reasons, and I probably should have left years ago. I can't think of anything in Discord's history that's even remotely as bad as, say, editing the posts of an idiot /r/TD poster to make them look stupider than they already are. So I can understand why someone might move from Reddit to Discord even though Discord has the same policy everyone is angry at Reddit for adopting.