pendell

Pendell

@pendell

Current Hyperfixation: Wizard of Oz

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

Check tags like Star Trek Archive and Media Piracy to find things I share for others.

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lifning
@lifning

what's up all you cool (U.S.-based) gamers, be sure to "headshot" an email to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com by march 27th1 to not forfeit your ability to "pwn" them in court when they inevitably screw us all over 😎🕹️👾

  1. https://discord.com/terms

dog
@dog

Note that this arbitration clause only applies in the US - non-US residents shouldn’t need to opt out. But if you’re American, you should consider it.

exerian
@exerian

what if i just never install discord instead?

pendell
@pendell

Too late, Discord already decided to ban my old account because I was sitting inactive in a server that did some scummy shit, and despite multiple emails never decided to undo the ban, and after 6 months they purged all my messages from their servers so there's no point anymore anyways. Discord has scorned me, they're a shit company that projects gamer-dude chill vibes but are really run by a bunch of incompetent fools who'd rather spend their time making overproduced marketing videos rather than giving any sort of customer support whatsoever.

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flurry
@flurry

From a blog post on the original arbitration clause in 2018, their reasoning:

We think that people can disagree on whether or not arbitration is good in general or whether or not the class action system is one that is beneficial; we don’t think it’s completely black and white. In fact, we’re very interested in how Europe is approaching implementing class action lawsuits, as their approach may mitigate the issues that the United States faces with them.

Because we don’t think it’s black and white, one of the things that we’ve implemented (which some of our competitors do not), is to allow you to opt out of this clause completely.

I suppose I can see that reasoning, but I don't get why they have a time limit on opting out.

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flurry
@flurry

what I don't get is why this has been updated for 2023. the arbitration clause has been in place for years, so... do you have to opt out every time they change their ToS? Is there just an open enrollment for opting out every time the ToS is updated?

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AllisonIsLivid
@AllisonIsLivid

That sounds like it would make too much sense (from a legal standpoint) and actually the default is supposed to be we are all screwed forever (in perpetuity) so that ten days after we die, they will own our corpses and make them dance (puppetry clause) to whatever tune makes them the most G-Dollars (space money of the future state)

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plumpan
@plumpan

I do wish there was a good discord alternative, with twitter slowly falling apart it's becoming a lot of people's primary (and only) online point of contact.

Emails are good but IMs are also important. I'd like an alternative that's at least a step better than telegram.

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lifning
@lifning

it depends on the combination of your server, their server, your client, and their client. nheko lets you input custom emotes that you uploaded from fluffychat (albeit with different syntax), which at least display in element desktop and element web, but element mobile won't render them at all. your friend embedding an element "live gps location widget" into the group chat while they're driving over to meet up with you just spams your fluffychat with 'unknown event' notifications every minute and makes the room take longer to load as the clients have to decrypt all the location update events only to ignore them. good luck getting a voice/video call to work that isn't "uhh let's just try jitsi meet instead." your friend suddenly stops being able to decrypt your messages because one of your homeservers changed something and nobody can figure out what. the list goes on

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AllisonIsLivid
@AllisonIsLivid

Why is it even legal to fucking do this? What an asshole law. How fucking stupid. If judges were actually rhetorical or moral arbiters of the law something like this could never happen, because it is bald-faced nonsense. I SUGGEST WE (metaphorically) SET FIRE TO THE LEGAL SYSTEM FOREVER, ANARCHY 420!

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AllisonIsLivid
@AllisonIsLivid

Holy shit, I am a little bit high and lil bit drunk, and I cannot process this. WHAT am I supposed to do here, and how long do i have to avoid the consequences of not having done yet??? Why does every organization become this under capitalism, and how do I kill 'em all (metaphorically, in a legal sense) so help me God (also metaphorical, you are my sisters, brothers, and cousins, and that spells God IME {In My Eyes}) ????

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