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Phosphor [&]@bazelgeuse-apologist6/7/2023, 9:09 AM

Today's regularly scheduled struggle with Discord's enshittification made me think about how Discord is not only the main way I stay in touch with friends (which is not in itself something that concerns me, actually) but also for various friends the only way we know how to contact each other (which is significantly more concerning to me!)

Thinking about if there's a cleaner way to platform-go-poof-proof this besides exchanging email addresses, as someone who tends to keep those private on principle, but tbh the majority of "cleaner ways" still involve some kind of inherently ephemeral platform that can itself go poof. Email contact books do exist for a reason...

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Wobblegong @wobblegong6/7/2023, 9:35 AM

Yeah I've been pondering it and it is... Not Great! I should bother more of my close friends for phone numbers, but besides that being the kind of thing I am NOT going to give out to any save the most trusted, it sucks as a backup contact method because text messages failing to send is just kind of a thing sometimes, and what are we supposed to do, actually call each other?!

But phones are pretty much the only widely-available fast contact method we have that can't just whoopie-doodle slip and fall and enshittify/stop existing. Email's next best but even if YOU decide to spend talent points on managing your own private email, the odds that all your friends will too are, shall we say, quite low outside of select friend groups. And while a burner email is a little easier to give out than a phone number, there's a lot of people I'd like to be loosely in contact with who I would prefer to never email me not even once in my life if possible. (I hate email, admittedly.)

Phosphor [&]@bazelgeuse-apologist6/7/2023, 9:42 AM

Yeah, tbh, I'd be handing out my email with the understanding that it's not the ideal way to contact me and should be reserved for if we wake up tomorrow and discover that Discord/Cohost/FFXIV/etc just all simultaneously combusted, and we need a temporary place to figure out where we're gonna congregate next. There was a time in my life when I could keep up with long email conversations, but between neurospicy, eepy, and Work, asynchronous chat messaging is currently the best for me!

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