hollyhoppet

hollyhoppet wrote

i guess economically i can think of it as people who can actually afford software subsidizing it for the masses, in some kind of a janky cross-subsidy scheme.

Take it from someone who has been a software engineer for almost fifteen years. The distribution of wealth within software companies, especially large ones, is so whack that the actual people who do the work see barely any money from product sales. And for enterprise version of windows? Don't worry actual corporations buying licenses are spending orders of magnitude more money on bulk licensing than you would if you could have bought a single user license yourself.

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hollyhoppet wrote

this sucks, like a lot. but i don't think this is a problem solely with discord? no matter where you run a community as a moderator you're going to have to make decisions surrounding transness and transphobia, and these moderators chose a path of transphobia.

i do think discord sucks in a lot of ways but it's currently the most user-friendly option out there sadly for managing a chat-based community. you can argue all day that irc is better but it lacks a lot of features and is really intimidating to a lot of people who aren't so tech literate.

the fact that it's used for centralizing information though IS BAD. make a dang wiki or something lol.

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