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It's a bit ridiculous that our government would sooner use Discord than a federated social media alternative (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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IIRC it was (at least speculated) that they made a discord server in order to avoid x.com

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I feel like a simple site with RSS, or a web forum if you really need interactivity, were all pretty much hammered out 20+ years ago.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I checked, they have an email list but not an RSS feed.

    On this discord, there is no messaging functionality. There used to be a join channel which showed joiners, but got removed as people kept changing their usernames, joining and leaving in order to send messages. (Some people still do it by using lower ascii characters to appear in the sidebar). So you'd have "Jeremy Corbyn" and "Jimmy Savile" and "Prince Andrew" joining

    People still leave reactions on messages. It's a fun assortment of union jacks, trans flags, pride flags, palestine flags, Ukraine flags, russian flags, EU flags, israeli flags, crosses, black pregnant men, middle fingers

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I donlt use Twitter, but I don't see this post on nitter.space or the referenced YouTube Shorts video.

    http://nitter.space/hmtreasury/

    https://youtube.com/shorts/sbOdCBi_cls

    Also tried

    https://youtube.com/shorts/sb0dCBi_cls

    Neither Google nor Kagi seem to find anything from the claimed post text.

    OP, can you link to the post in question rather than just an image?

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Well, it's probably full of spyware and upsells and otger unsavery stuff (only using it very rarely when FOSS projects would rather answer tge same questions 500 times in a chat than have a wiki) so they will feel right at home?

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's insane lol.

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    [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I donlt use Twitter, but I don't see this post on nitter.space or the referenced YouTube Shorts video.

    http://nitter.space/hmtreasury/

    https://youtube.com/shorts/sbOdCBi_cls

    Neither Google nor Kagi seem to find anything from the claimed post text.

    OP, can you link to the post in question rather than just an image?

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