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0 pointssimlevesque4y ago0 comments

Discord is a private company, IRC and Matrix are protocols.

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Similarly, no one wants "email". They want gmail, or some other service that gives them email.

IRC is not a home. Discord is a home. FreeNode is (was?) a home. The admin and moderation team (and the corporate structure therein) makes a difference that technical details cannot replicate.

vbsteven4y ago

The point is that IRC as a protocol makes it possible to join the FreeNode “home” from any compatible client on any platform. And users can modify most of these clients to their liking. Same with email or Matrix.

But with Discord users are locked in to use the closed source Discord clients, or reverse engineer the discord “protocol” and risk being banned because of it.

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_flux4y ago

How many would want gmail if or any other service that could only exchange messages with other users of the same system?

Email is what makes it happen that systems can exchange messages with each other. Much like Matrix. Much unlike Discord.

ImPostingOnHN4y ago

> no one wants "email"

> They want ... some ... service that gives them email.

Aren't these two statements contradictory?

"I have email" and "I have email service" mean the same thing to me.

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