lot to be said about discord generally but i wanna talk about a very specific goofy edge case that i have just discovered and am exploiting to Good but Extremely Dumb ends
i have an issue with pluralkit. not a personal/ideological/whatever issue, a technical issue. because of how discord works, every proxied message will send two notifications in a channel you have notifs enabled for (the initial message is deleted and replaced with a webhook message). getting two rapid fire notifications is a sensory nightmare for me and, as a result, i have notifications disabled in basically every server i'm in that has pluralkit enabled. all fine so far.
this falls apart in a context where getting notifications is Actually Kinda Important (for example: a channel in your roommate server where Seeing Things As They Come In is useful). when you will be living exclusively with people who use pluralkit, it becomes a balance of accommodations.
anyway it turns out if you block someone on discord who you share a server with, they can still see your messages but you won't get notified for theirs (discord prioritizes conversation continuity, which is a reasonable approach here). but because of how bot messages are attributed, you still see/are notified for their pluralkit messages.
the obvious conclusion to this is "block your friends on discord". it gets the job done. i guess.
