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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 20:58:02 JST 翠星石

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   • lumi :blobcatnom: :blobcatflower:
   @lumi @izaya >it has some flaws, like broadcasting your hostname everywhere
   Cool networks allow you to connect via tor or a dedicated .onion, so that flaw doesn't need to exist.
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     lumi :blobcatnom: :blobcatflower: (lumi@snug.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 20:58:03 JST lumi :blobcatnom: :blobcatflower:

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     @izaya honestly IRC is probably the best platform for project chat
     
     it has some flaws, like broadcasting your hostname everywhere, but besides that it's really good

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     Xeon² (izaya@social.shadowkat.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 20:58:05 JST Xeon²

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     • lumi :blobcatnom: :blobcatflower:
     @lumi I feel that from a different angle:
     first direct experience I had with it was trying to open it on a netbook from 2008, which it promptly managed to crash
     so I decided IRC was fine, actually
     turns out it also has a bunch of other technical and non-technical issues BESIDES being stupidly heavy! really dodged a bullet there.
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     lumi :blobcatnom: :blobcatflower: (lumi@snug.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Oct-2024 20:58:06 JST lumi :blobcatnom: :blobcatflower:

     the initial reason i rejected discord back in 2017 actually was only tangentially related to the bottomless pit of ethical issues there are with the platform
     
     it was because, when i logged in from a new device, i could just see all of my old messages, and that failure mode terrified me. i don't want someone just having my credentials mean they can see all of my chats, that's really messed up
     
     right now, i have an endless list of reasons why i don't use it and why the platform is deeply messed up (from being centralized, to being proprietary, to not having e2ee, etc), though :neocat_shocked: