As a generational discord hater, this pleases me.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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IRC :(
No voice/video calling, no screen sharing, no persistent chat history.
Is IRC still a thing? I havnt used it since 2006. I'd love to see it again
It is. Also widely bridged with Matrix.
Revolt is now Stoat
Guilded is dead
Trying to point my friends towards matrix/element, they already started a teamspeak server instead though >. >
The biggest issue is it didn't seem like matrix/element has streaming video in voice chat, we use that pretty heavily as we'll play different games and just hang and talk several streaming at a time.
they don’t arrest child traffickers and rapists.
No no, it’s the child at fault for being at risk around them.
I wasn't a huge discord use but I just removed all the channels before deleting the app on every device.
Not going to make a huge difference but if everyone does it, maybe it will!
Hear me out. Maybe, if you are a parent, its your duty to keep an eye on your child, and exert some control over the spaces and people they interact with?
The conservative belief is that children are basically property and as such can be used for hard labor and kept from appropriate healthcare... But then when it comes to porn, Big Government has to do everything for them.
Nobody ever said it was a consistent ideology.
Absofucking- lutely!
My 12 year old has zero unsupervised access to the internet. Zero. "But they'll suffer sociallly!"
Will they? My son has tons of friends and they play sports and Nerf guns. And, he can read. A whole chapter book, on his own, without prompting.
Suffer socially, ask the "incels" who have recovered if the internet access they had as teens "helped them socially".
My nephew plays lots of on online games. My sister checks in with me to make sure that he is both playing games that are appropriate for him, and with people who are appropriate to play with. We've setup a discord specifically for him and his friends, and the account he uses is actually my sister's account, on her own device, so she has direct control over what communities he's on in discord, who he talks to, and what content he is exposed to.
He is not allowed to play public lobby games with out her supervision, or a trusted "chaperone" (one of many IRL friend and family members) being in the lobby with him. This is as much about protecting him from harmful content, as it is about teaching him proper gaming etiquette. He was showing some toxic behaviors (greifing mainly) and I shut that down pretty quick.
Conservatives have been using the "think of the children line" to justify Draconian overeach for years. All while simultaneously doing everything in their power to take away programs that help children.
Let's not act like the dems don't do some of the same shit.
And no I'm not both sidesing this shit...just saying that the dems/left uses this reasoning a lot as well.
Minnesota recently used their tax on billionaires to expand education and provide free lunch to children so while the party isn't perfect they are not at all comparable.
What makes them so similar is first pass the post I guarantees a two party system and the practice of your gerrymandering creating safe seats. The worst Democrats are the ones with the safest seats. If you want positive change start there.
Off the top of my head I can only think of Lieberman and honestly the ESRB was a reasonable compromise.
political parties aren’t real. Their only purpose is market segmentation.
It doesn’t matter which teams win in sports, billionaires own all the leagues.
As a parent: 100% agree
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So they're going to turn everybody into teenagers. Last I checked, teenagers can't buy things like nitro right? Doesn't that completely fuck up their own business model?
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