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I occasionally write long posts but you should assume I'm talking out of my ass until proved otherwise. I do like writing shit sometimes.  

 

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lifning
@lifning
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

plumpan
@plumpan

I'm not going to rechost something like this without taking the time to write a comment under it, so here is that comment.

EDIT: No, sorry, I have something to add now.

"You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com within 30 days of March 27, 2023 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later, [...]"

I love just how vague this is. "Within 30 days", you mean before or after? Guessed wrong? Sorry! You agreed to the terms! You don't know how to read lawyer bullshit? Oh well! It's all written very clearly! You must just be fucking stupid! Well guess it's your fault now that we did some bullshit to screw you over. Rules are rules after all! :wumpus:

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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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