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"age verification is because discord hates privacy and for shareholders" is so ass-backwards i can't even

@lain It is good! Because it might lead to people choosing self-hosted open source alernatives instead of centralized corporate solutions with built in surveillance.

@h4890 @lain That has worked so well before. Everyone left Youtube and no one puts videos there any more.

@p @h4890 @lain Let's self-host matrix on a 30 dollar VPS, because synapse, and let it corrupt itself at random :)

@phnt @h4890 @lain

Why not IRC?
Because then normies won't talk to you.
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@p @h4890 @lain A feature, not a bug :)

That said, if you want to replace Discord, you have to target normies.

@phnt @h4890 @lain If you want normies to leave Discord, you have to target them. If you don't care what they do because they have demonstrated over and over again that they prefer walled gardens to the forest, and so strongly that they prefer walled *sewers* to the forest, and you just want Eric Schmidt to stop coming into your house at night to smell your hair, then you don't have to target them: you just tell them you don't use Discord and you can continue to enjoy IRC.

@p @h4890 @phnt @lain If you want normies to leave Discord, you have to target them with a rifle round at least as big as .223 to kill them dead.