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by _dmn7 842 days ago
A lot of people use FOSS because they value control and self-ownership. Discord is the antithesis to that, being controlled by an external entity which places itself in a privileged position to both be the speech police and shut you down at will. Unlike Github, a community is much harder to move than a code repository + CI system because it is more than a technical problem.