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      Given their reputation, you should question if it’s actually due to CP, or some other kind of possible political crackdown. I wouldn’t assume either way.

      Usually when it looks like these people are doing their jobs for once, it turns out to be something in line with their previous shit.

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      This was my first thought.

      Obviously did some shit then trying to gain sympathy like omg I was banned for being nice.

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    i hate discord so much my first discord account got permabanned because the owner of a server i was in went nuts and doxxed 8 year olds and my second account i got locked out for a year because they thought i was a bot and i couldnt use my phone number to verify because it was already in use on my first account then when i finally got in it had a 6 month ban because a server i was in got raided by racists that said slurs

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    Never understood why anyone would want to pay 100$ a year for discord, the paid version doesnt give you that much imo

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        I agree with you in principle for supporting developers directly through something like OpenCollective…

        … but ask Mozilla how much their Firefox devs get for each financial donation.

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          The company is the heart of the software and it would not exist without the company most likely. True the execs get probably a larger share of any payments but it’s just the way the world works. It’s a piece of software produced by the company, not the developers.

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            Yes that is the sad reality of it, but I don’t think it justifies sending money to the company in the first place. They’re backed by VC and are already predisposed to screw you financially in the longrun. Why accelerate this with donations

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      Personally, Discord has facilitated a long distance relationship with my now wife, and nearly ten years of weekly TTRPG games. I don’t mind the cost because they cannot provide that service for free forever, and I think it’s worth it for what I get out of it. The other benefits they add for paying are almost just bonuses to me after that.

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          It cannot be overstated how much of a boon Discord’s lack of friction is for connecting with people and forming communities. It is mind-flatteningly easy to get onto Discord and into a community, and while the content of those communities is woefully unindexed deep web, forever sequestered, the external discoverability of the communities themselves is exceptional.

          You will not ever reach the same people with the same ease of use as Discord if you use a hosted alternative.

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            the only “feature” that discord has is that other people use it.

            If you’re communicating with your wife over it, i can assure you the barrier to entry is the amount of time it takes to set up a mumble server, and the money that hosting it will cost. Configuring a mumble client takes like 12 seconds.

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      Which is a good monetation system. Premium users barely get anything but still enough to pay, while free users can do pretty much everything too.

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      I spam 500mb uploads… it kinda makes sense to me

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      personally the $3 a month nitro is worth it for me, considering how much I use it. I know Lemmy hates anything capitalist but a coffee a month isnt that much

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      I pay $30 a year for Nitro Basic. It’s only $2.50 a month and worth it to me with how much I use it.

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    Lost yearly Nitro and all my friends

    That’s sadder than he seems to understand it is.

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      I know “lol anon has no friends” is le epic funny meme but by friends, they obviously meant their contacts.

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        I have a lot of people, I’d consider friends, that I only communicate with through discord. If I lost my account, I’d likely never hear from them again. Kinda get it.

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    I’m legitimately paranoid about this scenario, especially since I’m in a couple of ERP servers, and I was friends with ReploidRevo… yes THAT ReploidRevo, and never knew about what he did until after his downfall went viral. (Shocked the Hell out of me because he seemed so normal and on the up and up)

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    This is one of the bigger reasons I don’t want to use social media controlled by a corporation, it means they can choose to cut me off from people at their discretion, which will probably be based on what is convenient and easy for them.

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    On this topic: I currently have installed on my phone and computer: slack, zoom, MSTeams, element, discord, Facebook messenger and signal to communicate in various projects and friends. What is this madness?!

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      I remember what a game changer Trillian was 20 years ago. Having AIM, MSN, and ICQ all in one app was so nice. I have yet to find anything modern like that. I just checked and Trillian still exists but it appears to just be its own stand alone chat app now.

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      Add telegram, threema, another matrix client for that other server and WhatsApp for some old friends to it

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    Same happened to me but with animal cruelty content or something. I tried to get the account back but turns out it was a “ban wave” so a lot of other people who got banned but were innocent were doing the same so discords services got overwhelmed by the appeals. Maybe they should have realized after that that this kinda banning is a horrible approach.

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    And I’m not looking forwards to the effort it is going to take to get my friends to migrate away from discord. It was hard enough to get them on discord in the first place.

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    Anon doesn’t know, Discord fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software.

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    I have a Discord but I hear a lot about how easily you can get banned, largely on the whims of the people running a single server, so I’ve always been a bit reluctant to use it.

    Also, I find it genuinely disturbing how much information all these companies have about you and your stuff.