adrianmalacoda
Adrian Kuschelyagi Malacoda.
Arrested for felony possession of cuteness
Sentenced to 30 minutes of snuggles
UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO POINT IN LIVING. CRY, THAT THERE IS NO ANSWER!
I don’t want to have children, but if I knew I was going to get Alzheimer’s at 65 I would plan to leave this world at 64.
I remember when this happened with GitHub, was a hashtag in response and I posted something like “I don’t have to #MoveToGitlab because I already have Gitlab here on my server”
I have a verifiable history of saying “Fuck Discord” every time Discord does something shitty or shady, so I look forward to being able to say it again. Use IRC, Matrix, XMPP, anything that’s libre and open and not a proprietary competitor
Indeed, it is in reference to its long wings, not a penis. There are several other insects and birds whose scientific names include this term.
Maybe if we didn’t spend all our money on… whatever this is, money wouldn’t be so tight.
You’re being heavily downvoted because this instance is “a community of free software and privacy enthusiasts” as the title on the front page suggests, and this in particular is the !opensource@lemmy.ml community. Discord is the complete antithesis of this, as it is a proprietary application locked to a centralized server that also spies on its users.
What is wrong with Discord (Richard Stallman)
Spyware level: Extremely High (Spyware Watchdog)
That being said, there are modern alternatives to IRC, such as Matrix, XMPP, Zulip, Mattermost, or RocketChat. However, I think IRC is fairly good at what it does.