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Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.

Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."

But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.

So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience.

I am not on Discord, and I have no intention of ever setting up an account. I got fooled once or twice by centralized platforms, but I learned my lesson and I am going to avoid being fooled again if at all possible.

And you know what? It is really quite possible.

If more people made a similar decision, it would be even easier. Every little bit counts.

We really refuse to understand how much power we actually do have as far as saying "no" to abusive technologies is concerned.

@apodoxus @rysiek
If it's inevitable, it's sure taking a long time to play out. Younger generations don't seem to be getting it, which would seem to be a prerequisite to a cultural change of that nature.

@pteryx @rysiek Then they will suffer and learn the hard way. It could take generations to play out, but the world will catch on.

@apodoxus @rysiek
If the fascists don't successfully ban that kind of "wrongthink" first...

@pteryx @rysiek Fascism isn't sustainable either.

@apodoxus @rysiek
People forget, the Nazis didn't go away on their own; they went away because they lost a war.

I am honestly afraid of living through WWIII on the enemy side, and/or of Trump bombing my region of the country for being "too woke".

@pteryx @rysiek People don't forget.