Appreciate that, genuinely, and right back at you. This has been a better exchange than most on the internet lol.
On timing and targeting, I think that's fair. Leading with that comic in response to "some communities genuinely can't relocate" was dramatic on purpose, partly to see if it'd draw more than a shrug, and it did exactly that. I don't think that makes it a good rhetorical choice in that specific spot. The Aunt Tracey case you and described isn't who I'm actually aiming for, of course, and answering it with the heaviest available comparison muddies a point I still think is real underneath it.
Because I'm not walking back the mechanism itself. Aware, unaffected, therefore inactive shows up identically whether the stakes are a chat app or a policy vote, that's not me being dramatic, that's just how scope insensitivity works. But you're right that treating "won't switch platforms" as one bucket is its own kind of flattening. Just like Jewish people shouldn't be treated as a monolith on Israel (exactly as Netanyahu and many others want), not everyone still on Discord is doing it out of laziness or tacit support for what the platform enables. Some are Aunt Tracey. Some have cancelled Nitro and are stuck on network effects they didn't choose. Those aren't the people I was actually aiming at, and lumping them in with genuine complacency is my bad. A bit of that twitter short-form limitation coming through lol.
The people I'm actually talking about are the ones who know exactly what's wrong, have the means to leave, and just won't be bothered. That's a much smaller and more specific group than "everyone still on Discord," and I should've said that the first time instead of making you drag it out of me.
For what it's worth, I cancelled Nitro the first time this news broke too, and that's what got me actually researching this instead of just being mad about it. I started building a homelab finally, part of which is a Discord alternative. I know not everyone has the hardware, time, or funding to do that themselves, which is exactly why I'm trying to build a bridge between the two, a frontend fork plus a bridge so people can message across both while a community migrates, so nobody feels cut off or left behind in the transition. It's also why I'm trying to learn Nix flakes and documenting my process and thoughts so I can more easily share it with others who can benefit from my time put in. That's the actual lever for the Aunt Tracey case, not arguing with strangers about it. FOSS is one of the better arguments I've got against the "individual action doesn't matter", people building real alternatives because they saw a problem, not because there's money in it. And that's what gives me a lot of hope today when we all need it more than ever. All the better if it takes a swing at the bottom line of big corpos, even more so the ones that fund genocide 😉