The first is that he is as close to a free-speech absolutist as it’s possible to find.

Oh really? Try writing “cisgender” on a tweet and see what happens.

It’s sponsored by a Western company. Resources and support are in English.

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Yes, both parties are complicit in the state of things. This is how elections (don’t) work.

Philanthropy has always been a way for the wealthy to whitewash themselves of the evil that made them wealthy. It’s never designed to actually fix the things they broke and the lives they ruined. Look into it’s history from its start with the robber barons. Look how bill gates is giving millions in philanthropy and yet “somehow” grows still more wealthy and controls immense amounts of agricultural land. It’s another capitalist ploy.

Musks resources could do.

That’s the thing. That’s an oxymoron. One can’t have musks resources and be a good person. To get such resources, one has, by design, to be the kind of person who thrives in Capitalism. Evil.

The point of it being a core feature, is that people are not going to Discord for its DM capabilities.

But campists assured us the Trump ceasefire is legit this time. Backed up by other Muslim nations and everything!

That’s true about DM, however DMs are not a core use-case for discord-like services. It’s the group/voice chats etc. I could see a workaround like lemmy does, where if you want to DM a user in another server, you might be able to do it through your fediverse instance (i.e. a DM simply has your fediverse instance DM their fediverse instance), but I’m sure there can be more elegant things like. However DMs by themselves are a weird thing by themselves, so much so, that even bluesky had to bolt DMs on-top and outside of their protocol.

Sorry but what exactly do you communicate and access between discord servers? Are you talking about PMs which are by default independent of servers?

Unified search could easily be achieved through third party tools at the least, like for IRC. I don’t think even discord has unified search between servers.

The bloat that it had tacked onto it since then is egregious.

VCs gotta make back that ROI…

Sounds like this is part of their business plan. Make hosting it so onerous, you’re better-off using their servers, or paying them to do it for you.

Just use croc to share files. Then size doesn’t matter.

I guess the easy solution here to to make it use oauth2 authentication. Then you can just authenticate using one account elsewhere. If fediverse services also at some point become oauth2 providers, then even better.

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Revolt != Matrix

In fact, if you sort like this by default, you basically get the old BBforum experience, with thread necromancy and everything.

I didn’t work an lw admin. I built this one my own (well as part of Haidra)

Doubling the usual price. Mr moneybags over here!

I always felt that Lua was a girl

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