Gregory's ServerEvery time you join a Discord server for an open source project, Brewster Kahle permanently deletes a kitten GIF from the Internet Archive.
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Explainer for people who don’t know all the references: • There is a meme of “Every time you x, god kills a kitten” • Discord is a chat app like Slack. Its code is not publicly accessible (proprietary, closed source) and it is controlled by a single company (centralized). • Brewster Kahle is a digital rights advocate and founder of https://archive.org/ • Many open source software projects use Discord instead of similar open source, decentralized alternatives like https://matrix.org/  @Jeremiah also: * It’s hard to find anything in Discord * There’s no good way to permanently archive anything in Discord  @Jeremiah Discord is... Problematic to say the least. |
Ideally, the original video of the kitten should be hunted down and then the inferior GIF version deleted.
Rather, every time you join a discord server, you reduce the amount of freedom in the world by a slight amount, as you're reinforcing the network effect of proprietary malware that's also spyware.
Ideally, the original video of the kitten should be hunted down and then the inferior GIF version deleted.