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The rest of the quote: > Stop using Discord for anything else than just chatting. Stop dumping knowledge into a black hole. Use forums. Use the open web. Futur

The rest of the quote: > Stop using Discord for anything else than just chatting. Stop dumping knowledge into a black hole. Use forums. Use the open web. Future nerds will thank you.

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Rinzler89 2y ago
Yeah I also hate technical discussions on (legal) hacking and tinkering happening in some obscure Telegram or Discord groups that you only find out if you know a guy who knows a guy who found the Discord link on some Reddit post. WTF?! I get the need for non-open communication channels if you want to stay away from Nintendo's lawyers or something but otherwise come on, just have the discussions in a more open place FFS. I also hate Reddit but at least it can be reached via search engines.
CM30 2y ago
This is the key part here. There's nothing wrong with using Discord to chat about random stuff. If you're talking to your friends about your latest night out or playing online games with a community, then Discord is fine. The issue is how some communities use it as a wiki, documentation and forum replacement for information that should be available on the public internet. This is a huge problem for speedrunning and modding communities, which seem to love using Discord and Google Sheets and other awkward 'must know the link to access' tools for information that should probably be in a wiki somewhere.
- sneak 2y ago
  This is untrue. Talking to friends in DM on non-e2ee platforms normalizes ubiquitous surveillance of friendship interactions and makes all of society worse. Don’t be reachable on non-e2ee DM systems. Delete your account.
  - jmprspret 2y ago
    This also has the added benefit of weeding out people who can't be bothered to put in just a little effort to keep in touch with you. Shows who your true friends are. It's actually sad. But an eye opener ;)
  - CM30 2y ago
    Fair point. I guess a better explanation would be "don't use messaging apps for publicly accessible content, regardless of if the system is open source, federated or e2ee". The same general issue would apply if these communities used Matrix or Signal or Telegram or WhatsApp or whatever else.
  - beretguy 2y ago
    I don’t disagree, but challenge is getting other people getting onboard of another system.
koolala 2y ago
Some people like "privacy" or rather - natural emphemeral communication. Discord is instead... a living shared community memory?

The rest of the quote: > Stop using Discord for anything else than just chatting. Stop dumping knowledge into a black hole. Use forums. Use the open web. Future nerds will thank you.

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Rinzler89 2y ago

Yeah I also hate technical discussions on (legal) hacking and tinkering happening in some obscure Telegram or Discord groups that you only find out if you know a guy who knows a guy who found the Discord link on some Reddit post. WTF?! I get the need for non-open communication channels if you want to stay away from Nintendo's lawyers or something but otherwise come on, just have the discussions in a more open place FFS. I also hate Reddit but at least it can be reached via search engines.

CM30 2y ago

This is the key part here. There's nothing wrong with using Discord to chat about random stuff. If you're talking to your friends about your latest night out or playing online games with a community, then Discord is fine. The issue is how some communities use it as a wiki, documentation and forum replacement for information that should be available on the public internet. This is a huge problem for speedrunning and modding communities, which seem to love using Discord and Google Sheets and other awkward 'must know the link to access' tools for information that should probably be in a wiki somewhere.

sneak 2y ago
This is untrue. Talking to friends in DM on non-e2ee platforms normalizes ubiquitous surveillance of friendship interactions and makes all of society worse. Don’t be reachable on non-e2ee DM systems. Delete your account.
- jmprspret 2y ago
  This also has the added benefit of weeding out people who can't be bothered to put in just a little effort to keep in touch with you. Shows who your true friends are. It's actually sad. But an eye opener ;)
- CM30 2y ago
  Fair point. I guess a better explanation would be "don't use messaging apps for publicly accessible content, regardless of if the system is open source, federated or e2ee". The same general issue would apply if these communities used Matrix or Signal or Telegram or WhatsApp or whatever else.
- beretguy 2y ago
  I don’t disagree, but challenge is getting other people getting onboard of another system.

koolala 2y ago

Some people like "privacy" or rather - natural emphemeral communication. Discord is instead... a living shared community memory?