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AI6YR

@miah I don't get why so many people willingly handcuff themselves to subscription services. (although, I do get companies who are unable to figure out how to run their own infrastructure and decide it's easier to outsource it, i.e. slack)

20 June at 13:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on m.ai6yr.org
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posiputt

@ai6yr I think it's the old problem of not everyone knowing about things that existed before the thing that just happened to them. discord is more accessible to so-called "normies". same with linux. same with nextcloud. same with xmpp. same with everything that is not on the app store/google play. same with everything that is used mainly by the tech-savvy. capitalism knows how to sell convenience over agency. @miah

20 June at 19:36 | Open on trees.social
posiputt

@ai6yr also, I don't want to be antagonistic, but the phrase "I don't get why people" seems to be (at least to me) part of that very problem. it's a kind of soft gatekeeping. treating the non-obvious choice as the obvious choice just isn't gonna win anyone over. @miah

20 June at 19:39 | Open on trees.social
posiputt

@ai6yr (okay last thing I promise): I am absolutely in favour of using irc, xmpp, linux and all that, and I do. but I also use discord, because I know people that won't use IRC, ever. because it's weird and old and text-based and they'd have to learn new rules and how the whole decentralized thing works and why would they? noone they know (except me) would even be there. @miah

20 June at 19:42 | Open on trees.social
Andrej

@posiputt @ai6yr @miah Additionally, IRCs culture is not very welcoming and at times downright gate-keepy.

21 June at 8:33 | Open on trees.social
Miah Johnson

@andrej @posiputt @ai6yr I think this varies greatly. It was certainly more true in the 1990's but I wouldn't say it is today or even 15 years ago.

21 June at 11:05 | Open on hachyderm.io
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