I mean Nintendo would nuke the forums too.
Their lawyers don’t fuck around. They’re as bad as Disney.
Unless you’re a forum hosted in someplace like the Netherlands or Russia you’re in range for Nintendo’s nukes.
Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
imnapr@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
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.
huginn@feddit.it 8 months ago
tesseract@beehaw.org 8 months ago
You’d at least get a chance to migrate if you do daily backups.
huginn@feddit.it 8 months ago
Thats not what happens with a nuke - they threaten the owner and take everything: backups included.
tesseract@beehaw.org 8 months ago
That’s why you don’t backup on the same provider. You can always backup to the local system with encryption. And they can’t attack the owner in every jurisdiction.
Kedly@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I mean, Suyu already seems to be jumping to a different medium, so it sounds like this situation wouldnt have gone any differently had Suyu had their main support hosted anywhere else. Nintendo would have nuked any of the support locations, and Suyu would then have to jump to a new safe haven
Zworf@beehaw.org 8 months ago
The Netherlands is extremely docile to big business interests.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Discord has no uses that isn’t already covered by other options, though. Their biggest feature is publicity.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
You ppl dont remner how utterly tedious forums were. We hake karma-based systems nowadays, we cam move on
Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Karma is a net negative for actual community creation and meaningful discussion.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Karma+threaded is better than chronologic imo
DdCno1@beehaw.org 8 months ago
I’ve used forums that had these things 20 years ago. This isn’t new.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Idk, I wasnt around back then. But most forums I stumble upon have none of that
DdCno1@beehaw.org 8 months ago
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.
ben_dover@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
or, you know, lemmy? it’s not that much different from forum software, is browsable and federated