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This game spent nearly a decade in development to end up like this.

Matrix exists as a federated Discord-like. Though the problem I have with it is that it is a Discord-like, with the same problems of not being indexed by search engines. I don’t think these types of platforms are where most online communities should be. Not to say there’s no use case for a private group chat, but I hate that in a lot of communities Discord is being used for the wrong reasons.

The alternative for most Discord servers should be forums. Actually, I think Piefed/Lemmy/Mbin can work great as a modern federated forum, one that solves some of the friction of old-school forums by only needing users to have one Fedi account they can use everywhere.

I’m expecting that if/when Discord does fall, people will just go to another corporate-owned platform that hasn’t enshittified yet… but inevitably will. And the cycle will repeat.

This is what we’re seeing with BlueSky. Sure, BlueSky pays lip service to federation in order to convince users they’re totally different, but in reality they’ve set it up so that nearly everything goes through their master server and they hold control. I don’t trust BlueSky any further than I can throw it, but ActivityPub is clearly losing the battle here.

Trying to convince people to come to Fedi is like trying to convince them to switch to Linux. They’re not gonna do it and they will get mad at me if I don’t shut the fuck up.

Discord is the last mainstream social media platform I still use, and god do I hate it. I hate the impact it’s had on online communities, moving everything underground to a place that isn’t indexed by search engines.

Unfortunately, I’m kind of stuck with it, I can’t disconnect from those communities that have chosen to tie themselves to this platform. If I did I really would be a hermit living in a cave.

Pretty much every 2D game did.