Centralization = easy censorship.
We need to go back to pre-discord and bring back forums man. Don’t get me wrong, discord has its uses, all my friends use it, but discord killing forums and websites was really bad for the internet as a whole. Like look at dolphin, made before discord, it has its own website, its own forums. Hopefully if Nintendo does ever come after dolphin they’ll at least be able to keep the website and forums up.
or, you know, lemmy? it’s not that much different from forum software, is browsable and federated
Discord has no uses that isn’t already covered by other options, though. Their biggest feature is publicity.
You ppl dont remner how utterly tedious forums were. We hake karma-based systems nowadays, we cam move on
Karma is a net negative for actual community creation and meaningful discussion.
Karma+threaded is better than chronologic imo, why do you think it’s bad?
I’ve used forums that had these things 20 years ago. This isn’t new.
Idk, I wasnt around back then. But most forums I stumble upon have none of that
I should add that it wasn’t the norm back then either.
What’s kind of funny is that all of the debates around these systems are exactly the same today as back then, like for example that you should use the voting system to reward quality comments, not use it as an agree/disagree button.
Ooh! I would like to hear from all those who were fervently vouching for Discord as a support channel for FOSS projects.
Perhaps the same might happen to a web forum or matrix channel. But at least you get an opportunity to backup and migrate.
I mean, my response earlier probably still works for those who’d prefer discord as a support channel to other Foss channels: This is far more of a Nintendo bad moment than it is a Discord bad. I doubt foss alternatives would have the lawyers to fight Nintendo better than Discord can. And while my mind immediately thought of a hydra anology that Foss might have, hasnt the hydra already activated anyways? Suyu is already jumping into different hosting mediums
I understand that Lemmy hates Discord, but this is FAR more of Nintendo being an asshat than it is Discord. I’m so far done giving Nintendo my money at this point
edit: I just wanna point out that Corgana posted a response that was straight up false, I called him out on it with proof, he edited his response instead of replying to me to make my response to him look bad, and then when I called him out on that by putting what his original response was in my response, he deleted hos post to try and hide his shame. This user apparently has a history of doing this, and I find this HIGHLY manipulative and scummy, so I’m putting this edit here so that he cant hide his actions by deleting them because I called him out before any damage could be done
Yes it’s Nintendo. But it wouldn’t be this bad without Discord’s design that emphasizes centralization and corporate ownership of user data. Forums can at least be backed up and migrated elsewhere.
Tbf I think a lot of that is just the fault of people starting to use discord in ways it wasnt designed for. It works GREAT as a msn/skype/ventrillo type of program. Its just that people started using it for more than just that, and to my knowledge discord isnt super profitable yet, so I dont blame them for trying to accept any type of use people want to use discord for. Eventually it’ll need to at least break even profit wise.
Not to mention Discord is not forced to take communities down. There’s lots of stuff like right wing nutjob communities that are still up no issues. Discord is just sucking Nintendo dick, just like the communities that host solely on Discord are sucking Discord cock.
Discord had the heat of litigation forced in their direction, thats the difference between Suyu and the nutjob communities. If some company threatened legal consequences if discord didnt nuke one of the nut job communities, I doubt they would be any less hesitant to nuke said communities than they were for Suyu
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Not sure if your sarcasm is towards me or towards someone who’d defend Nintendo, but tbh I’m getting tired of Mega Corps in general (not that I ever really liked them in the first place), so asshats like Nintendo who go above and beyond being a dick because they have the legal team to do so I’m just done giving money to. Indie workers/companies of all fields I’ll try and get money to, but I kind of just want to see the current crop of mega corps sink and not come back
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Like, they DO focus pretty well on making fun games. But that isnt enough anymore to overlook how fucking Cyberpunk they act in our modern boring dystopia
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Welp, at least their price isnt my problem anymore, because I’m done giving them any money
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If you read the article YES THEY DID, discord was served papers, and Discord acted on it
Nice edit bro. Your original comment said that Nintendo didnt make discord remove anyone, and you COULD have responded to this response instead of editing your original one, which tells me you’re acting in EXTREMELY bad faith
2nd Edit: Lmao, buddy fuckin CRUMPLED when I pointed out his game playing
3rd edit: LMAO it’s one of the mods that ran the startek fed so badly that tenforward was created, ok that makes sense, buddy has a history of editing comments instead of responding
Guess what? This will make them stronger. Suyu’s GitLab repo was already DMCA’d, after that they set up their own Forgejo instance. They also get their website running again (It was down for a few days, I don’t know the reason) and they’re now strong and independent. Moving away from Discord will only increase their independence.
I wonder if the codeberg site is vulnerable to such laws. I think they operate from the EU.
They’re based in Germany, so it should be fine. But I think they said at some point that they don’t want any trouble with DMCA code.
Germany specifically
I loving all the discord hate here. I’ve never understood why people like it.
It’s good enough and everyone has it and knows it
I’m not about to even attempt to ask someone in a game if they’ve got matrix because the answer is going to be no
I think it’s like Windows and Reddit. People don’t use it because they like or love it, but because most are there. Sometimes the only way to interact with the developers or find new people in an active community.
Yeah me either. It spies on your computer, they ban third-party clients. It’s owned by bytedance. When I use the web version it kicks me out every day and I have to log in again.
I don’t mind it being around but I really hate the way open source projects (e.g. Home Assistant) use it as their only platform for collaboration. The make me give up my data just to collaborate with them on a privacy tool.
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Same. They’re are so many foss options out there, why discord?
That happens if a single company controls the community (Reddit, Discord) and its closed source on top of it…
What I find hilarious is that these are just minor hiccups. The emulation scene has existed for a long time and will continue to exist for a long time. None of these recent measures will do anything to stop it as long as the emulator devs aren’t trying to make money off Nintendo IP.
I don’t get why we are always running after our abusers, we have so many FOSS alternatives to this shit. And please don’t hit me with that “discord has more users” bullshit. I’m so sick of these fuckers abusing their powers.
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Revolt also actively discourages you from self hosting because they want to get the network effect going, and you can’t do that if everything is splintered.
I have yet to find a Discord alternative, and I’ve looked a few times.
Anyone arguing “Discord has more users” on here can just be reminded that Reddit / Twitter has more users than their fediverse alternatives, and yet here they are on Lemmy, and probably Mastodon too.
A better world is possible.
Everyone here is saying not to use Discord, but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo’s lawyers send them a letter? Like sure, hate Discord, but the problem here clearly lies with Nintendo.
but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo’s lawyers send them a letter
…Not… kick them out? Discord doesn’t kick out extremist groups. This seems comparatively mild. I think they had a reasonable expectation to be left alone. Nintendo got a court injunction but Discord didn’t fight it.
I am guessing noone is suing discord for hosting these groups were Nintendo might be threatening a lawsuit for hosting these devs.
So not a matter of morals but self-preservation.
Is the expectation that Discord will risk spending potentially millions in court with Nintendo to protect a single community? From their perspective, it’s easy to see why they’d just bend over.
Discord’s response was extreme, and that is inexcusable. I’m not trying to defend them here. The core problem here though is Nintendo harassing these developers to try to stop these projects. They could have easily been kicked out by any other platform, or sent a C&D if they tried to self-host one.
Yeah, it’s easy to see, but I don’t have to respect it.
Host the project in a country where IP laws don’t give Nintendo any teeth.
You can blame both corporations, you don’t need to suck any corpo cock. Nintendo sends the takedowns in the first place, which sure is Nintendon’t, and Discord heeds them despite otherwise profiting from those communities and without allowing any sort of measure.
You can blame both corporations
I don’t remember saying otherwise. I just found it odd that everyone was talking about Discord (at the time of posting), and there was very little discussion around Nintendo’s involvement in encouraging (and participating in) such toxic behavior.
without allowing any sort of measure.
This is what I find unacceptable in Discord’s case. Options should have been given to the devs/server admins.
Problem? These devs are exposing themselves to the corporate legal eye. Have whatever opinion you want, but they are playing in the bear enclosure at the zoo.
I obviously don’t love corporate fuckery, but I acknowledge it is pretty clear. If you fuck with a company with a huge legal team, even tangentially, even if you believe you are not infringing on anything, you could be wrong in their eyes, and they might nuke your project.
Discord is trash anyway, move onto Matrix already
Time to restore a backup on a different hosting provider… what, Discord doesn’t let export backups, or self-host it? Well, shouldn’t have relied on Discord then.
There is this Matrix-Discord bridge, but I don’t exactly understand the details and if its one way only. https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/discord/
i think thats a little extreme, cant they just remove the content and block them? also why does discord have weapons of mass destruction in the first place?
I’m sure all these companies have similar policy that they can stop hosting your things if they don’t like to
Backup and migrate. Choose only platforms that support it. The only weak point there is the DNS registrar.
