With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

  • mapto@feddit.bg
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    3 days ago

    How I miss the “do one thing and do it well” attitude in commercial services. Why do they have to convert any nice product into a s.itshow? It can’t be that investors want good services to become worse…

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 days ago

      This is the fediverse. You are FREE to use swear words! Shitshow! Cuntwad! Shitter!

      As for

      Why do they have to convert any nice product into a s.itshow?

      Money, dear boy. Those VC shekels don’t pump up in value to support genocide by themselves!

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        4 hours ago

        I don’t want to use swearwords. I hope I’m allowed not to in this freedom you’re telling me about.

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          4 hours ago

          Sure why not, avoid them all you want.

          Just sayin’, we don’t need no stinkin’ tiktok style censorship around here.