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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 156 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Good, stop using Discord to host your shit

[–] [email protected] 90 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Especially Open Source stuff.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I genuinely don't understand why some open source communities rely so heavily on Discord.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Because you need people to build a community, and like it or not, most people are on discord

There are other reasons but I think this is the main one

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes but it's a small effort to sign up for somewhere else. Matrix is just as good and they do care about your privacy.

I find it really weird for a project like Home Assistant where the whole goal of the package is to wrestle control of your home from the big tech clouds. Only to put their own comms data in a big tech cloud... :X

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Matrix is not as good. It’s getting there with spaces and matrix 2.0 on the horizon but it’s still a bit clunky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

most people are on discord

There's a lot of people on Discord (around 200 million monthly active users) but it's still the smallest out of all the major messaging services that support group chats. For example, Telegram has over double the number of users, and WhatsApp has 10x the users.

For open source projects in particular, something that integrates with Github and Gitlab login (like Gitter which is now powered by Matrix) is a better choice, as developers are practically guaranteed to have one of those accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The article says the code was not hosted on discord. Even if it was, the code does not infringe on any Nintendo copyright. Having a grudge against discord doesn't make it fair to victim blame

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Discord hosted the community, not the code. And that community is now destroyed without even a chance to backup. And Discord can absolutely be blamed because people were warning that this would happen. This is as much a result of Discord's centralized design as it is of Nintendo's greed. Now the community has to be reestablished on a new platform from scratch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

They are saying comment OP is blaming the user for using Discord, not Discord.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I only said it wasn't ok to victim blame, I'm not at all saying discord is the victim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

OK, I misunderstood it. However, this was something that people were warning about for a long time.