Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Especially Open Source stuff.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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    • UprisingVoltage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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

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      • Zworf@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        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

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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. Telegram has over double the number of users, for example.

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• Pietson@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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

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  • tesseract@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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.

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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    • Pietson@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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      • tesseract@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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