This is one of the bigger reasons I don’t want to use social media controlled by a corporation, it means they can choose to cut me off from people at their discretion, which will probably be based on what is convenient and easy for them.
Anon uses Discord
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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 months ago
And as Reddit has shown they will shut you down for expressing any political opinion they don’t like.
Contemporarium@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They’re banning people for upvoting now lol
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This, the second you aren’t profitable, they put you in the modern day version of solitary confinement.
Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Never understood why anyone would want to pay 100$ a year for discord, the paid version doesnt give you that much imo
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Which is a good monetation system. Premium users barely get anything but still enough to pay, while free users can do pretty much everything too.
Olmai@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Discord makes money by selling data, premium is just extra
Rin@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I spam 500mb uploads… it kinda makes sense to me
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Personally, Discord has facilitated a long distance relationship with my now wife, and nearly ten years of weekly TTRPG games. I don’t mind the cost because they cannot provide that service for free forever, and I think it’s worth it for what I get out of it.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
you could also pay to host some shit like mumble.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
personally the $3 a month nitro is worth it for me, considering how much I use it. I know Lemmy hates anything capitalist but a coffee a month isnt that much
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
To support the developers and pay for a product you use all the time? Same reason you pay for any software/game.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Ask Mozilla how much their FF devs get for each financial donation compared to the CEO. Nothing? Damn, who woulda guessed
satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lol. Read their EULA
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I pay $30 a year for Nitro Basic. It’s only $2.50 a month and worth it to me with how much I use it.
padge@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Same, I call it my “shitposting tax”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
You don’t wanna pay $100 for a bunch of useless stickers and random features that don’t need to be in a chat program? Whaaaaaat? ^/s^
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 month ago
For $100, you could rent a VPS for a year and host whatever chat service you want on it, with whatever rules you want.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 month ago
that’s true. however, you’re gonna have a tough time finding something to run on there that isn’t worse than discord by any reasonable metric.
like, buddy, i get it. i also selfhost. but let’s not lie to ourselves. google drive is LIGHTYEARS ahead of collabora, matrix is a buggy mess, jellyfin – okay, well jellyfin is actually unironically better than netflix, but that’s assuming you have the technical chops to run a seedbox and the money to bulid a sufficiently beefy transcoding server (either that or put up with external video players, excessive bandwidth usage, and in some cases stuttering bc of software decoding), and you can either overlook the moral issues or buy everything on blu-ray, and ChatGPT and friends might suck total ass but they can still run circles around anything you can load into ollama.
this is also ignoring the fact that you would need the technical know-how to self-host, which as techies we tend to underestimate. is docker easy for us? yes. is it easy for joe random who may or may not have ever intentionally opened his browser devtools? no. plus there’s still configuration files to think of. but even if you’re using one of those easy vps services that does all that for you, you’re still selfhosting a freaking chat platform. assuming you want to talk to anyone who isn’t an LLM, you’re going to have to either convince them to join your chat platform and then do moderation, or federate, in which case, what can you get from a single user instance that you can’t get by joining someone else’s instance and saving yourself a LOT of hassle?
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anon doesn’t know, Discord fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software.
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
What do you mean??
psud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I think they are saying that discord is bad because it is not Free software, that it is bad because it is a commercial service
itsnotits@lemmy.world 2 months ago
- Three-year-old* account with no violations
- 5-year-old* alt account
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That is kinda bullshit if they didn’t even see the content.
Arbiter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, seeing as it’s a 4chan greentext there’s probably some very important information being left out.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Entirely possible.
Earflap@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Just because they didn’t participate doesn’t mean they didn’t know it was there.
DempstersBox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Discord specifically has a skip to most recent post button, that i use frequently on the busier ones, because I’m not scrolling through two miles of unrelated nonsense and sub-convos to get to what’s currently relevant.
Am I guilty of thoughtcrime?
Soulg@ani.social 2 months ago
You know that some servers can have tens of thousands of people right?
TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 2 months ago
Presumption of innocence is a thing, you know?
In 2020 some small servers (50-200 people per server) got cover banned with all their users, mostly for political talk, as far as I’m aware.
I, personally, usually join such small servers while looking for lobby members in older games, I have a couple of them muted except for channels dedicated specifically to game lobbies. If someone starts an “illegal” talk in any other channel on one of these, why should I be held liable? Or am I suddenly obligated to hunt for pipe bomb recipes on any server I join?
Zozano@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Just because they’re part of the server doesn’t mean they knew it was there.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
And the reverse is just as true, what point were you trying to make?
tauren@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It doesn’t prove that they knew either. We have this thing called presumption of innocence.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I mean, if you’re on 4chan…
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 months ago
This was my first thought.
Obviously did some shit then trying to gain sympathy like omg I was banned for being nice.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And I’m not looking forwards to the effort it is going to take to get my friends to migrate away from discord. It was hard enough to get them on discord in the first place.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lost yearly Nitro
You cuck.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Same happened to me but with animal cruelty content or something. I tried to get the account back but turns out it was a “ban wave” so a lot of other people who got banned but were innocent were doing the same so discords services got overwhelmed by the appeals. Maybe they should have realized after that that this kinda banning is a horrible approach.
Frog@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Anon’s big mistake was not being the President of the Gulf of America.
backgroundcow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On this topic: I currently have installed on my phone and computer: slack, zoom, MSTeams, element, discord, Facebook messenger and signal to communicate in various projects and friends. What is this madness?!
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Add telegram, threema, another matrix client for that other server and WhatsApp for some old friends to it
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can we throw in LINE and KakaoTalk for shits and giggles?
Soapbox1858@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I remember what a game changer Trillian was 20 years ago. Having AIM, MSN, and ICQ all in one app was so nice. I have yet to find anything modern like that. I just checked and Trillian still exists but it appears to just be its own stand alone chat app now.
kane@femboys.biz 2 months ago
This is why people should be worried of using these massive services, luckily it was ‘only’ Discord (if this was your primary way to interact with friends, this can be a huge deal).
But imagine if it was your email account!
Getting a reputable provider, self hosting or using a decentralized option is paramount for your own sanity.
psud@aussie.zone 2 months ago
There was that man who was all in on Google.
He had a telemedicine appointment for his son who had a problem with his penis. Dr asked him to send a close-up photo so he could diagnose the skin condition
So the guy takes the photo with his pixel phone and sends it
The phone automatically backs up the photo
Google’s AI says it’s child porn, his account is deleted and police are contacted
Police look into it and say “not porn, totally fine” but have to go to his house to tell him the was no problem because his phone was Google, his internet was Google fibre, his email was Gmail and his photo album was on Google and all that was irrevocably deleted
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Currently having problems with GMail I lost my old phone (2fA) and no device was logged in so i could not access steam and like everything that requires that old mail
And my phone provider or postal service is stupid because i could not get a replacement sim after multiple tries which normally works
Googles account recovery policy is basically:
- 2fA
- recovery email
- create a new account x.x
I think the recovery mail option only gets unlocked after 6? months inactivity because ~3 months ago i did not have the option
Now after requesting a recovery i still have to wait a full month before they maybe give me a password reset to my moms mail
But steam support was nice. Managed to get the account by providing a product key i used a few months ago and was lucky enough not to have thrown the physical card away
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Currently having problems with GMail I lost my old phone (2fA)
Yea this is exactly why I don’t use 2FA
If the password is like 64 characters randomly generated by Keepass, the 2FA doesn’t matter.
tauren@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This made me thinking about Valve potentially banning my 19-old Steam account due to some error or a mistake 💀 I heard bad things about their customer support.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Anon forgot to put their interpersonal relationships in a RAID array
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I created a Discord account so I could try Midjourney. No idea why but my account blocked within a few hours. Didn’t bother to set up another one. Could do without that proprietary garbage frankly.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They block most VPNs outright.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
All the more reason to not use Discord imo.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mullvas works.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Good on discord for actually doing something given their reputation
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Given their reputation, you should question if it’s actually due to CP, or some other kind of possible political crackdown. I wouldn’t assume either way.
Master@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Its greentext. Its not real/true.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Can’t say if this anon specifically had this happen, but there’s plenty of proof of it happening.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fake an gay as they say
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I watch enough No Text To Speech to belive this is true. I even think he had a video about this
Anon can at least hope to appeal the suspension as its not a complete ban but support might take a while
HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I have a Discord but I hear a lot about how easily you can get banned, largely on the whims of the people running a single server, so I’ve always been a bit reluctant to use it.
Also, I find it genuinely disturbing how much information all these companies have about you and your stuff.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m legitimately paranoid about this scenario, especially since I’m in a couple of ERP servers, and I was friends with ReploidRevo… yes THAT ReploidRevo, and never knew about what he did until after his downfall went viral.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
gooner? or just curious?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s just fun pretend roleplay with consenting adult other parties
sgbrain7@lemm.ee 2 months ago
gosh, that makes me feel really nervous
madjo@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Same! Perhaps I should prune my Discord servers
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Discord usually just uses some bullshit allegations when they feel like kicking accounts down
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’m worried that for reporting all those servers and people, I will get a permaban as a thank you.
mr2meows@pawb.social 2 months ago
i hate discord so much my first discord account got permabanned because the owner of a server i was in went nuts and doxxed 8 year olds and my second account i got locked out for a year because they thought i was a bot and i couldnt use my phone number to verify because it was already in use on my first account then when i finally got in it had a 6 month ban because a server i was in got raided by racists that said slurs
easily3667@lemmus.org 2 months ago
I have no qualms about your getting banned for this.
You are who you associate with. For example: trump associates with Epstein. Should he not be banned from discord?
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
So, if anyone in this thread ever posts CP elsewhere on lemmy, or even here in this thread now that you’re already here, you think your acct should be wholly banned from lemmy because you are who you associate with?
easily3667@lemmus.org 2 months ago
In your analogy this Lemmy thread and a discord group are the same. I disagree with this and would say the discord group would be more akin to joining a subreddit known for sharing that type of content.
I am of course not giving anon the benefit of the doubt because of who they are.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 months ago
You are who you associate with.
Must be why in most democratic nations you have no freedom of association.
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I still don’t understand the point of discord. I just deleted the app cause it was sooooo boring. The only social media I have is a perma banned reddit account (a few), snapchat (which I never use anymore as I have grown out of it and it has turned to absolute shit) and the lemmsters. Feeling good
index@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This doesn’t sound “user friendly” at all to me
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve never had a Discord account. It’s gamers, right?
Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Whats the draw of discord? I don’t get why people go on there. It’s boring af and you gotta talk with people while you play video games. I’ll go on if I absolutely have to for a group, but I avoid if I can.
rustyfish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I know “lol anon has no friends” is le epic funny meme but by friends, they obviously meant their contacts.
mossy_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have a lot of people, I’d consider friends, that I only communicate with through discord. If I lost my account, I’d likely never hear from them again. Kinda get it.
TwanHE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Idk might just be talking about his online friend’s. But knowing 4chan maybe not