An IRC server or even a mailing list seems far better suited to the purpose than a notoriously closed and proprietary platform.

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jjav a day ago | parent | next [-]

Absolutely. Discord is a scourge, a completely closed proprietary platform that is impossible to access via any standard compliant mechanism. Even for their website they demand a phone number just to read anything.

	▲	throw101010 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Even for their website they demand a phone number just to read anything. Does it currently? I have a couple Discord accounts that never got tied to a phone number and can still use them. Telegram on the other hand does that, I've never managed to get my own account for it without a phone number... and all the anonymous (pay for temp number) end up giving you a shared "account" that anyone can take from you if they get attribued the same number (and they will).

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tokioyoyo 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you want people to participate, or do you want to have the moral high-ground for using X, Y, Z? Nobody outside our fringe circles use IRC server/mailing lists. Younger people are all on Discord.

I have no skin in this game, but I get the general line of thought.

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deadbabe 21 hours ago | parent [-]

You guys are using IRC??

	▲	tokioyoyo 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have, admittedly, used it once last year to get in touch with some people.

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huflungdung a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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