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points by john_strinlai 2 days ago | 0 comments

im pretty sure most people moved to discord because it is easy and has a lot of nice features, not because they were scared of global thought police

[–] Sharlin 2 days ago

Right. Many communities and project teams saw a real need for an IRC replacement, whether literally or not, and Discord was the least bad choice simply by existing. And IRC channels were of course just as un-googlable without setting up a logging bot and a crawlable archive.

[–] cowlevel 2 days ago

Not necessarily because they were scared, but probably a lot of them got banned or saw their friends get banned from Reddit, and couldn't get back on because Reddit has quite strong detection for ban evaders, so after the initial anger period, Reddit just disappeared from their mind altogether.

[–] add-sub-mul-div 2 days ago

You can openly be a white supremacist on Twitter now. The reason some people still aren't happy is because what they really want is to be able to have terrible opinions and not be disliked and shunned, which isn't possible. Social repercussions and censorship are different things.

[–] devilsdata 2 days ago

I've found that people with terrible opinions aren't happy to stay in their own groups. They want to be part of the nice groups.

[–] axus 2 days ago

But they sure are upset now that Discord bans accounts based on reports to its thought police.

[–] ganoushoreilly 2 days ago

Both things can be true.

[–] john_strinlai 2 days ago

i doubt it is true for the majority, though.

in any case, i dont think the "hunter biden laptop" discord group is opting into this feature.