in case you're wondering - yes, globally

@lashman They are going to lose a LOT of users for that.

@andycarolan we can only hope

@lashman Continue reading with a subscription.

@iamdtms awww dang

@lashman Ba boom.

@lashman Yes. I mean, as the article mentioned, they suffered a data breach last October. While they are now using a different vendor, how long until they leak? It’s such a massive unknown.

@andycarolan i give them a few months tops

@lashman Will be interesting to see how it pans out.

@Bara_Coded @lashman unfortunately with stoat they decided against any federation protocols,, it's very small and fragmented. It's much more of an alternative for mumble than discord.

@andycarolan hopefully really really bad for them

@lashman I… I get the impression that you don’t like Discord much? lol

@andycarolan whatever gave that idea?

@lashman I must have a sixth sense

@raptor85 @lashman indeed it is small, there aren't a lot of communities or users. I don't think it was developed with the capacity to integrate with the fediverse. Is there another, fediverse-based Discord alternative?

@andycarolan clearly! haha

@andycarolan @lashman I hope it’s the end of companies and people moving all discourse about their endeavours to Discord. Every one with dozens of sub topics. It’s impossible to keep track of.
[puts on old man hat]
Also there seems to be a compulsion to communicate solelywith animated GIFs rather than plain text as our creator intended…

@CTD @lashman I think people purely picked the likes of Discord because they were the easy route. I too have been guilty of responding with GIFs… but I wonder if forums would be any different now if they returned en-masse.