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Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly (kotaku.com)
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[–] 4 points 4 days ago (14 children)

I judge people on consumption practices that are easy to change. Not me nor anyone can do anything about all the affordable things we need to survive coming from sweatshops or destroying the environment.

But Discord doesn't come even close to approaching any such thing, and it costs literally nothing to collectively dump it. Especially if some technical friends have already done all the technical work for you.

Fuck anyone who tries to make that comparison.

You can keep hating if you want but those people will not miss you...

I won't miss them either. Only what I thought they stood for.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (13 children)

    I mean how are you interfacing here on Lemmy? You got an iPhone or are you using technology that wasn't built by one of the 5 companies trying to actibely destroy the world?

    I don't think yoy need to be putting this much moral burden on Discord that it makes you actively shun people who are otherwise probably not monsters. When I say SOLELY I do mean are you making any other calculation here like whether they've been a good friend to you or are someone you might be able to cpnvince down the road? People who still go to Starbucks disgust me but if I have a friend who works for Non-Profit orgs or volunteers time and just doesn't have the desire to focus on where they're picking up their 2 dollar drip coffee I might sneer at them when they do it but hate doesn't enter into it.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (12 children)

    Since I already answered most of this in my previous comment, I'll just copy pasta it:

    I judge people on consumption practices that are easy to change. Not me nor anyone can do anything about all the affordable things we need to survive coming from sweatshops or destroying the environment. But Discord doesn't come even close to approaching any such thing, and it costs literally nothing to collectively dump it. Especially if some technical friends have already done all the technical work _for you._ Fuck anyone who tries to make that comparison.

    As for the new thing:

    I don't think yoy need to be putting this much moral burden on Discord that it makes you actively shun people who are otherwise probably not monsters.

    I can, I should, and I will. So you can go fuck yourself.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 days ago (11 children)

    Yeah starting to get the sense that people didn't follow you to Matrix vecause you've gone out of your way to make yourself as insufferably sanctimonious as possible. Can't blame them.

    It sounds like being you is deeply unenviable. Good luck! Being a full on cunt will never convince anyone to be on your side!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (10 children)

    Yes, believe whatever is most comfortable for you to believe, because gods forbid a modicum of principle is demanded.

    Being a full on cunt...

    Only my bestest behaviour towards those most deserving.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (9 children)

    Alright if you wanna keep it going.

    I would look up what modicum means, my guy.

    Who were these friends? Were they people you knew in real life? Were they peolle you knew for years, hell even maybe a handful of months? Were they people you spent time with, had conversations with? Did you share ideas or passions? Who were they?

    I'm asking because I genuinely want to know what made them 'deserve' this. And no, I don't presume you're talking to me because you don't even know who I am and I have been nothing but polite to you up to this point. You don't know what I deserve, jnless I'm right about the sanctimonious thing and God only knows how deeply helpless you are if it's that bad.

    Who were they, and what made keeping Discord such a damning act? I just don't believe that can be it. You can't seriously leverage the entire system of morals and countenance on a group of people by one point of information here, in all of my deepest sincerity, you're gonna drive yourself insane, man.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (8 children)

    Who were these friends? Were they people you knew in real life? Were they peolle you knew for years, hell even maybe a handful of months? Were they people you spent time with, had conversations with? Did you share ideas or passions? Who were they?

    Who were they, and what made keeping Discord such a damning act?

    I've known some of the for 10 years. I don't think there's a single one who I've known for less than a year. I know their supposed political views and what they say they support, and the things we supposedly agreed on.

    But like everyone they just like to talk.

    And I've been seeing the same complacent crap about Discord on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Lemmy, and I'm going to have zero tolerance for people who take what is literally techno fascism belly up.

    And no, I don't presume you're talking to me because you don't even know who I am and I have been nothing but polite to you up to this point.

    Politeness doesn't make your bullshit palatable. And why would I even need to know more about you when you're defending the use of Discord?

    If you ever find yourself asking "how could people let XYZ happen" about some past tyrrany, look in the mirror.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (7 children)

    Hoo boy.

    Yeah I genuinely thought there was a conversation here but I think the paranoia is a little too real. I genuinly mean this but get help.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (6 children)

    There is ignorance, then there is willful ignorance. I'll repeat myself; get fucked.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    There's an entire world of 8 billion people out there.

    There's people making art that is going to be enjoyed for decades. People today will be trying to describe what it was like when it was new to teenagers in 2053.

    There's people who will not eat tomorrow because they haven't been able to find a job yet. Maybe they'll get lucky and their sister will be in town and will take them out for lunch.

    There's a three year old finding out for the first time how to drag a mouse and draw a line on the screen. In 26 years they're going to start their first animation job and be happier than tbey've ever been.

    And right now you think a chat app is going to e d humanity and have Roko's Basilisk'd yourself out of friendships that have lasted a decade.

    Get. Fucking. Help.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (4 children)

    Siiiiggghhhhhhh...

    I judge people on consumption practices that are easy to change. Not me nor anyone can do anything about all the affordable things we need to survive coming from sweatshops or destroying the environment. But Discord doesn't come even close to approaching any such thing, and it costs literally nothing to collectively dump it. Especially if some technical friends have already done all the technical work for you.

    You're using some sort of fallacy I forgot the name of. The one where you argue about changing something problematic because other problems also still exist.

    Is it "whataboutism"?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    No because you are literally dying on this hill and the tunnel vision you've developed refuses to let you see past this insane narrative you've absolutely coccooned yourself in that yours is the only rigteous path and everyone else is an enemy.

    Again, you are trying to justify to me that what you're saying is true and brother, maybe it is, but I've lost friends to this selfsame indignant insanity because the hole the dug themselves left them alone and ashamed. This route will kill you if you don't snap out of it now.

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