i love how no one has a good alternative, because there are none

as someone on irc, no, irc is not a good option

how dare people want to stay connected to their network without having eight million different apps

love the techno supremacy of people working in tech, surrounded by tech, constantly attached to the wrists on a desktop computer

clearly the use case of the average american

i'll be sure to inform all my relatives in the global south to just switch to a dozen different apps on their personal phones which they may or may not have

some of you are shocked that The East is not Just China

i know, i know

fucking wild

from now on we communicate via starcraft chat

i don't make the rules

i have never been less reassured by discord about something

DON'T WORRY GUYS

DISCORD'S COMPANY AI WILL SAVE YOU

just gonna set up a private server and spam every gif i have that makes the atf mad
AND TO BE CLEAR, IT'S NOT LIKE DISCORD IS SUCH A GREAT FUCKING APP TO BEGIN WITH

every shithead under the sun already like "tee hee the links/documentation are in my disco server!"

EAT MY ASSHOLE

@worthlessbums I was looking into Discord for #WhartsonHall on one of the many occasions when Google's video chat was getting made worse. I self-host a lot of stuff. I saw all these people talking about "my server" and thought "OK, where do I download it". Oh no, silly Roger, it's "your server" hosted by them, run by them, showing their adverts, feeding into their central repository of personal information, but you get to kick people off it so it's "yours".
(So I ended up self-hosting Jitsi.)

@RogerBW after skype got sunset my family basically just inertia flopped over onto... google meet

i hate everything