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by JuniperMesos 225 days ago
It's always cool to see people playing around with ideas about how to make better computer systems from first principles. On the other hand, it's hard to turn a project into a real system that solves real problems for people.

Can I use it to chat on Discord with other people I know who use Discord? If not, then I'm gonna need a computer for that, in addition to this thing. I do not like Discord, but nonetheless it has a network effect and it's what a lot of people I want or need to communicate with have standardized on, and until I can compel all of them to stop using it, I need to be able to run the software somehow.
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immibis 225 days ago
Chatting on Discord is not actually your problem. Communicating with your friends and with random strangers who have the same parasocials as you is your problem. And the latter is artificial anyway.
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JuniperMesos 225 days ago
The last Discord I joined was for a local math and formal methods meetup group in my area. The one before that was the official chat space for an open source project.

I disapprove of both these groups choosing Discord to run their official chat on. Nonetheless, it's what they picked, so I need to use some kind of software to send messages to Discord's backend to communicate with these groups if I want to participate in them at all.

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immibis 225 days ago
Did you talk to the group admins about this? Perhaps ask if they can give your bridge bot access to the guild ("server")?
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