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[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Imagine allowing your social life to be paywalled by a billionaire.

No wonder they just keep trying to fuck us, a whole bunch of people are on their knees with their mouths open.

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[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Imagine your social life being entirely online.

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[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

You want me to move to some open source bullshit that nobody uses? For what? If there's a better alternative than discord sure.

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[–] fonix232@fedia.io 1 point 7 months ago

Matrix is a good option, can host it for your friends, and can bridge it to literally dozens of other platforms (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Discord, Signal, Telegram, the list goes on)

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