realizing nearly every video game speedrunning/TAS/glitch-hunting community i care about is gatekept by only really hosting downloads and accepting contributions via a discord server :niko_less_sad:

why discord? :niko_upset2:

why?

@kemona_halftau yes!!!! because of that I literally should reverce engineer cool techniques that are used in speedruns.
for me that approach instead of encouraging to engage with community actually pushes away from it.

@kemona_halftau I hope andrew lee buys discord and runs it into the ground like he did with freenode. everything I hear about discord makes it seem like they’re trying as hard as possible to get people to leave, but somehow still not succeeding. andrew lee could fix that.

one discord-bridged IRC channel I am in recently bridged to fluxer. it’s already certainly better than discord (AGPLv3-licensed free software, no stupid rule disallowing third-party clients (speaking of which, I looked at the discord ToS and it does not in fact explicitly ban third-party clients, but apparently they do ban people for it so I guess discord are just completely ignoring their own ToS)), but I wouldn’t trust it until it implements federation (which is planned, but not implemented yet). both of the main issues with it (proprietary CAPTCHA required to log in, and regional age verification stupidity) would be fixed by federation. I think it might be more successful in getting people to switch than things like XMPP/IRC/Matrix because it is basically a direct discord clone (and even implements the same API)