I don't understand how you can seriously pose Discord as an alternative in this conversation as it's entirely centralized and full of all sorts of toxic behavior and failure modes.
Like at least suggest old school forums, IRC, or usenet.
Almost. The key difference is I can log in to Discord once and post in unlimited communities. The auth UX is excellent. Joining communities is very cheap.
Discord is technically centralised but in a way that mostly doesn't matter at the point of use, and its design avoids many of the failure modes of old school forums, IRC, or usenet where moderator cabals take control of any community and bully lowly users.
how does it avoid that? i have experienced just as many power tripping mods on discord as i have on irc. the only difference to me is that i have never seen an irc channel with over 20 million users
direwolf20|1 month ago
apitman|1 month ago
We need an open protocol of this concept.
lmm|1 month ago
zeratax|1 month ago