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this is absurd. i have no idea why teens like discord so much, it's like irc with all the bad sides (messy, not stored on the open web, ephemeral, corporate cen
by kome 3y ago
this is absurd. i have no idea why teens like discord so much, it's like irc with all the bad sides (messy, not stored on the open web, ephemeral, corporate censorship) and without the good sides (privacy, decentralization, etc)
- jazzyjackson 3y ago> (privacy, decentralization, etc) These are not universal values. > (messy, not stored on the open web, ephemeral, corporate censorship) Being stored on the open web to be indexed and archived is really the opposite of private. Obviously discord has access to everything but as far as the user is concerned its more private than anything else short of e2ee group chats (but what's the point of an e2ee chat with hundreds of strangers, any one of which can be a fed?) And I don't know if you noticed but a lot of the youth prefers the censorship, or as they call it, taking out the trash.
- zirgs 3y agoHosting a chatroom yourself is too much work. The same reason why nobody wants to run their own email server.