someone's already done this
no, we don't know where – they just posted screencaps of the shitpost in discord, and we can't find them anymore
this isn't some sort of accident, this is exactly the strategic objective Discord as a company has been pursuing with these new features: getting information off of the open web and into their walled garden
maybe uh
don't cooperate?
nothing is actually inevitable, the perception of inevitability is a lie that companies tell for self-serving reasons. if people choose not to use these new features, the move will fail.
it's good to have community be a little bit cut-off from the larger world. humans aren't good at being a hive-mind, we still need our boundaries. information delivery in general though, well, putting it in a sign-in-required walled garden is counter to everything the early internet stood for, and everything from the open knowledge movement before it.
knowledge is power, and the ideal of building a better world by making sure everyone has easy access to knowledge about everything they want, that ideal is still relevant and important in modern times.
corporations will only get in the way of this. they should not be indulged.
