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I have never had a single issue with discord, what gives?
Only used Lenny for a couple months now. But there seems to be a very strong extremist undercurrent in most groups.
In this case, if it's not FOSS and 100% FREE is a trash service/application.
You learn to just tune it out after a while.
Of course! I tune it ALL extremists! That's what you meant right? Right?
But you didn't have an issue with reddit until the rugpull, right? Same point/worry with Discord and any other centralized close source system.
I had plenty of issues with Reddit and had been actively looking for an alternative for the better part of a year prior to the rugpull.
Reddit was great... until it wasn't.
Building communities in somebody else's backyard is problematic because if your community gets popular, you're stuck there. History has shown us that for-profit social sites/apps that grow large always turn to crap when it's time for them to actually start making a significant profit. I haven't seen any reason to think that Discord has figured out a way to prevent that. Have you?
Something similar is even a risk with Lemmy because there isn't really a way to migrate a community to another server if the admins of the one you pick change the policies in a way you aren't OK with, or simply shut down the server.