It’s your proposed solution that’s the problem. The answer isn’t to make Discord public, it’s to convince people to move off of it, and quite honestly, if you want people to leave Discord so badly, you’d be better off setting up separate public forums for the open source projects you are interested in on your own and convincing/bribing respected members of the Discord to post there, or copy/paste technical info there.

I feel the same way about Lemmy so I sympathize with you, honestly.

For open-source projects and stuff that needs to be public, I can feel you.

What these chucklefucks are asking for is to make ALL Discord content indexable and searchable, even extremely private intimate things, and that’s absolutely unacceptable.

No one wants their private/semi-private chats to be indexable or searchable. The whole POINT is to not have what you say broadcast to all and sundry.

Well, I’m glad you’re breaking out of the cycle. I have seen with my own eyes how that shit turns humans into literal, and I mean LITERAL zombies.

You couldn’t pay me enough to ever do anything like that

I literally did just that for a summer a few years back. An extremely exhilarating adventure, but I got bored of that crap after a while.

And no, I have never consumed any hard drugs nor would I ever given a fifth of a third of a quarter of the shit I saw on the road.

Then hosts need to ban VPNs.

They need to use cookies that attach a unique identifier to each machine to enforce bans per machine. Hash the cookie so it can’t be edited. If a user clears their cookies, they need to put in a special private key to get back into their account.

Or just make users scan in ID or pay with a credit card to gain membership.

None of those ideas are perfect but they are needed for better ban enforcement overall anyway.

That’s a terrible idea and so easily gamed.

Lookit here, it’s a perfect example of what I’m talking about.

I’m sorry that happened to you, and you’re right, all signs are pointing to a second civil war in the U.S.

Fair

Implying Lemmy is any different

That’s just the excuse they use. Sadly it works on a lot of people who think it’s a legitimate question when it’s not, and is in fact easily disproved.

Take away their wallet, phone or medicine and then ask them if they still aren’t sure. Or point a gun at their head and ask them if they’re not sure a bullet will blast through their skull and kill them if they don’t stop talking.

Or just tell them that means their religion is still bupkis because if we can’t be sure, we can’t accept it as true. Hold them to their standards.

Even if this is a simulation, it’s still a part of reality because it’s what we’re experiencing. All reality is is what we interact with

Because religion fulfills people’s emotional needs.

Why would anyone using FOSS stuff like Linux even want shitty corporate games anyway?

Don’t ask. 🤦

Yeah, we can tell. You NEED the grass. And oxygen. And water. And soap.

Then get off of Threads, go outside and go touch some grass.

Then go back to Threads and stop bothering everyone else.