| ▲ | ravenstine 9 hours ago |
| Haven't cared about Discord in a long time. In fact I'm glad they're continuing to shoot themselves in the foot. During the pandemic, I was on a Discord server for folks to socialize and blow off steam about the whole situation. Yes, there were some anti-vaxx wackos, but overall the place was civil and balanced, and I met some interesting people through it. We cracked jokes and it was a little bit of fun in a tough time. One day I came to discover that Discord had banned the server for allegedly violating... something. I wish I had written down everyone's emails because I permanently lost contact with a bunch of friends in an instant. I never signed in to Discord again, in spite of times where some other social group wanted to use it. I vowed never to use Discord again. Fuck those guys and the Teslas they rode in on. I hope this ID verification thing is another big step towards their irrelevancy. |
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| ▲ | gjsman-1000 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Discord has 150 million monthly active users. They’ll be fine. To them, this is just another internet boycott, with all that entails. Reddit survived a worse one and grew afterward. |
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| ▲ | ravenstine 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | The difference with Reddit is it has way more persistent value. Everything on Discord is throwaway, but valuable posts on Reddit from years past are easily retrievable. The two aren't so comparable. One of the unspoken reasons many people have for using Discord is they don't want what they say to easily be associated with them in perpetuity. Requiring ID really chips away at that, in spite of what Discord has to say about privacy around ID. By no means am I saying that Discord will go extinct. I just haven't observed anything about it that's irreplaceable. Reddit, on the other hand, has a wealth of discussion dating back to the mid-to-late 00's. | | |
| ▲ | Terr_ 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > valuable posts on Reddit from years past are easily retrievable. Rant: Several years ago, everything I'd ever written for over a decade on Reddit vanished one morning for no discernible reason, including all nested replies from other people. I appealed, my appeal was "granted", and nothing changed, except the appeals page refused to work because it said my account was already in good standing. I dug up an ancient account I had used for resume feedback, asked around in the help subreddits, and it too was killed the same way. | |
| ▲ | encom 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >valuable posts on Reddit [removed] [removed] [removed] [removed] [removed] | | |
| ▲ | ravenstine 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | There's this thing called the Wayback Machine, but I lol'd at your response. It's not untrue. xD |
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| ▲ | alex1138 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You should be more tolerant of the "anti-vaxx wackos". The covid 'vaccine' has a very large number of negative externalities, confirmed by scores of credentialed doctors and researchers |
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| ▲ | jmye 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's wild that this nonsense is still floating around by people pushing "credentialed doctors", whatever the fuck they think that means. No one with any vague degree of credibility would now or ever has supported "very large number" and all of the "externalities" (are you sure you're using the right words) have been vastly outweighed by the things the vaccine provably did. So tired of this shit. | | |
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