There’s nothing else left then.

Yes, it is indeed a very fancy autocomplete, but as much as it feels like it’s is doing reasoning, it is not.

No, it literally doesn’t understand the question. It just writes what it statistically expects would follow the words in the the sentence expressing the question.

There’s no point asking it factual questions like these. It doesn’t understand them.

It seems the dev just wanted to run it as a personal fork and never understood the reason for the pr standards in a collaborative environment

Third one should be called “A Bot”

They deserve each other

The biggest tragedy of modern media is that they chose to cast Elon Musk as the real life Tony Stark instead of torvalds who created 2 pieces of truly revolutionary software (with the help of thousands of other engineers ofc)

No Port-knocking? Amateurs! /s

The first is that he is as close to a free-speech absolutist as it’s possible to find.

Oh really? Try writing “cisgender” on a tweet and see what happens.

Yes, both parties are complicit in the state of things. This is how elections (don’t) work.

Philanthropy has always been a way for the wealthy to whitewash themselves of the evil that made them wealthy. It’s never designed to actually fix the things they broke and the lives they ruined. Look into it’s history from its start with the robber barons. Look how bill gates is giving millions in philanthropy and yet “somehow” grows still more wealthy and controls immense amounts of agricultural land. It’s another capitalist ploy.

Musks resources could do.

That’s the thing. That’s an oxymoron. One can’t have musks resources and be a good person. To get such resources, one has, by design, to be the kind of person who thrives in Capitalism. Evil.

The point of it being a core feature, is that people are not going to Discord for its DM capabilities.

That’s true about DM, however DMs are not a core use-case for discord-like services. It’s the group/voice chats etc. I could see a workaround like lemmy does, where if you want to DM a user in another server, you might be able to do it through your fediverse instance (i.e. a DM simply has your fediverse instance DM their fediverse instance), but I’m sure there can be more elegant things like. However DMs by themselves are a weird thing by themselves, so much so, that even bluesky had to bolt DMs on-top and outside of their protocol.

Sorry but what exactly do you communicate and access between discord servers? Are you talking about PMs which are by default independent of servers?

Unified search could easily be achieved through third party tools at the least, like for IRC. I don’t think even discord has unified search between servers.

The bloat that it had tacked onto it since then is egregious.

VCs gotta make back that ROI…

Sounds like this is part of their business plan. Make hosting it so onerous, you’re better-off using their servers, or paying them to do it for you.

Just use croc to share files. Then size doesn’t matter.

I guess the easy solution here to to make it use oauth2 authentication. Then you can just authenticate using one account elsewhere. If fediverse services also at some point become oauth2 providers, then even better.