Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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I love how people on shitter and REEEEsetera are noticing the big problem with centralizing a community around Discord.
The problem with Discord/Reddit is on one hand the same problem with Yahoo Groups/Answers/Tumblr/etc, or 8chan if we want to look at this section of the internet. Being centralized means that you are toast when a big tech company sees you as not profitable, or it gets shut down for some reason.
But it has other unique problems. Maybe you got banned, or a user involved wipes all his posts because he rightfully hates Reddit's moderation, or a group ends up self censoring to stay happy with Reddit's moderation (which is never enough if mobs come for you), and whatnot. Discord groups also vanish easily when drama happens or there is a chat schism and it's harder to archive.
Here's a personal Discord story I tell people on why forums are better. Some guy I used to know ran a big Discord server for some microgenre of music and eventually during the Summer of Floyd drama hit because the mkultra signal went out everyone was looking for a quick cancel. Some guy in that scene gets canceled for making fun of SJWs years ago (no really) and drama blows up in the server. The server admin takes many rational approaches like banning people, whining about it, whining about how people deserved it, was just happy Kiwi Farms didn't notice this drama (because the trolls might start noticing the scene he was in and laughing at it for a week), and finally suicide baited and threatened to delete the server.
That's right, because of drama in the scene the server owner was threatening to delete his Discord server and kill himself. Imagine how much info would be lost if he actually did it. I'm sure people left said server from his outburst too.
This is why Discord groups are bad hubs for a community.
The problem with Discord/Reddit is on one hand the same problem with Yahoo Groups/Answers/Tumblr/etc, or 8chan if we want to look at this section of the internet. Being centralized means that you are toast when a big tech company sees you as not profitable, or it gets shut down for some reason.
But it has other unique problems. Maybe you got banned, or a user involved wipes all his posts because he rightfully hates Reddit's moderation, or a group ends up self censoring to stay happy with Reddit's moderation (which is never enough if mobs come for you), and whatnot. Discord groups also vanish easily when drama happens or there is a chat schism and it's harder to archive.
Here's a personal Discord story I tell people on why forums are better. Some guy I used to know ran a big Discord server for some microgenre of music and eventually during the Summer of Floyd drama hit because the mkultra signal went out everyone was looking for a quick cancel. Some guy in that scene gets canceled for making fun of SJWs years ago (no really) and drama blows up in the server. The server admin takes many rational approaches like banning people, whining about it, whining about how people deserved it, was just happy Kiwi Farms didn't notice this drama (because the trolls might start noticing the scene he was in and laughing at it for a week), and finally suicide baited and threatened to delete the server.
That's right, because of drama in the scene the server owner was threatening to delete his Discord server and kill himself. Imagine how much info would be lost if he actually did it. I'm sure people left said server from his outburst too.
This is why Discord groups are bad hubs for a community.
RT @freedom2fly
A story you won’t read anywhere else.
‘Bungs’ to Billionaires: Cummings Exposes Johnson’s Cash for Content Scandal – via @BylineTimes
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/05/11/bungs-to-billionaires-cummings-exposes-johnsons-cash-for-content-scandal/
Nads looks like she’s eating a lemon. Mind you …
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RT @UKGovtGoogles
fantasy threesome?
https://twitter.com/UKGovtGoogles/status/1533124197509365760
RT @safeasfuck
Just watching the local news.
What….(and I don’t say this lightly)….the absolute fuck
RT @JohnWest_JAWS
Crowds of woke, union jack waving, left wing monarchists & nobility boo the Johnson's.
Dash it all. https://twitter.com/vicderbyshire/status/1532660093489119233
RT @caitoz
If you've been reading the news Blinken's tweet makes no sense until you remember the US government believes it owns the entire planet so it's allowed to do things Iran isn't allowed to do. https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1531355020532367360
RT @caitoz
It says so much about the state of western academia that it's treated as a major scandal if university professors don't unquestioningly regurgitate what their government says about international affairs. And it says so much about British state media that this article was written. https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1531616500146118656
Not one for the lovers of the imperial core https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-empire-will-be-defeated-by?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios
If you want some perspective on Heard/Depp this is worth a read. https://michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/the-bleak-spectacle-of-the-amber?s=r
RT @PeterStefanovi2
Jeez! Jacob Rees-Mogg told viewers last night “It’s very important we support Boris Johnson if we want to see the benefits of Brexit delivered”
I’ve added some actual FACTS to this eighteenth century fantasist’s interview
RT @jthapisces
“most African nations abandoned socialism” is a very interesting way of describing western imperialist backed coups which often ended in military dictatorships, wide spread corruption, and a regression in human rights and overall well-being
RT @guardian
Was it really asking too much for Amber Heard to be listened to without prejudice? | Gaby Hinsliff https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/02/amber-heard-johnny-depp?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1654240429
I get a day’s holiday and she gets a £22½ billion fortune and millions a year to run her estates. Plus millions to bail out her vile son.
“She inherited it”
That makes it even worse.
RT @jasonhickel
The British Empire was one of the most violent institutions in modern history, built on explicitly racist ideology and guilty of serial crimes against humanity. It is astonishing that OBEs and other honours are given, accepted and celebrated in its name.
It’s so badly written, too.
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RT @StefGotBooted
I've just found out that the name of the IRA character in @campbellclaret's book is O'Grimacey??!! Lmao. Also, contains the nuanced depiction of Irishness you'd expect. Buckle up. 🧵
https://twitter.com/StefGotBooted/status/1532335150603845632
Today I discovered the Better Twitter Chrome extension. Yeah https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-twitter/illmpnnkeobcgnnjghammeohfjpjoljp/related
RT @LGBTSRH
Retweet if you would love to see Owen Jones interview Chris Williamson, Jackie Walker and Simon Maginn.
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
