Technology

I was a wee bit surprised (but not really, I guess) when just before the Reddit blackout everyone on Reddit was spamming their relevant Discord links for the relevant subreddit.

I could only think, "That's no better!!"

We'll see if that changes.

To add to that, Discord is an entirely different kind of interaction. Fine if that's what you want, but not fine if you want something a bit more....static.

I tried setting up discord once for a project. I use a whitelist firewall on my workstation for a few reasons. Discord is the most sketchy nonsense I have ever encountered. At least when I tried a few years ago, discord tries to make a cascade of connections to what appears to be random raw IP addresses on weird ports. I started punching a few holes to let it through but after a half dozen raw IP addresses and it still didn't work I said forget this nonsense. I'm probably just too dumb to understand what is going on, but I'm not willing to trust any proprietary service like that, especially when I really can't tell how they are remotely financially viable. Maybe someone here knows why they operate like this on raw IP addresses and ports. I didn't find any explanation on their website.

Um. The only drama I've seen about Discord is the name change crap. Unfortunately that was a necessary change because of their own original stupidity with usernames and capitalization.

Evilcoleslaw#1234

EvilColeslaw#1234

evilcoleslaw#1234

Every permutation of capitalization can be a unique username under their original format, and for the low low price of Nitro you can change your discriminator at will to impersonate someone quite convincingly.

How does discord make money? It's always concerned me what data they're harvesting.

I agree that there’s a currenct hard push for massive enshittification, so I think we’d better be ready and able to 1) embrace federation, 2) advance it to a degree that BigTech can’t keep up with (FTL speed), 3) pay actual money for it ourselves to ourselves, and 4) do what we must to enshrine anti-enshittification systems into the fabric of this new direction of online society.

I know this doesn't really fall into "tech news" or anything, but the take seemed insightful enough to be worthy of sharing imo, so forgib me pls ❤️