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[Al Beano <albino AT autistici.org>]

On 7 July 2018 19:46:05 BST, Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net> wrote:
>Discord has a number of benefits outside of "a more modern interface"......

Yes. IRC is not an ideal platform but it at least provides user freedom. For 
the reasons I explained in my first post in this thread I think Discord is 
completely unacceptable for OpenNIC communication regardless of how many 
great features it might have. 

>Also it's free (cost-wise) forever.

Says who? It's a closed platform. There are no guarantees. 

>But nobody is forcing you to join Discord in any case.

I did join, mainly because I am already 'suffering' under Discord and one 
more server will do me no harm, but this sentiment is missing the point — the 
more traction Discord gains in our community, the more discussion will shift 
there and the more people who can't/won't use Discord will be excluded, and 
others will end up using a proprietary program just because they want to be 
involved. I think this is dangerous. 

Furthermore, fusl made this comment on Discord:

>fusl#1337: `it is run by two fairly high-profile members of the OpenNIC 
>community` so what? i run two 8.8.8.8/.4.4 pops, that also doesnt mean that 
>users have to use googles public dns resolvers now and i do run my own one 
>as well LOL

And when I said that I'd rather discuss this on the mailing list:
>fusl#1337: it's imho not a discussion and you can't force me to reply on the 
>mailing list when i do not want to :smiley:

I'd like to address this here regardless (although I can't do much about the 
definition of a discussion) — you using Discord gives validates it and helps 
to provide interesting/valuable discussion there, pressuring users to adopt 
Discord in addition to other platforms and excluding those who do not. Your 
Google resolvers don't do this. 

albino