that’s pretty disappointing to hear. You’d think that they’d update the client to give it discord-like features since that’s clearly what people want.

I ran a TS3 server for years that we used and it was fine. Didn’t have the chat features we now have with discord but as a voip it was great.

Maybe I’m old but I feel like Teamspeak would be the best alternative.

This is just another example of mental gymnastics when it comes to piracy.

Primarily because I pirate the majority of media I consume.

I really couldn’t care if people judged me for my reasons, I pirate because I’m selfish just like the vast majority of people who pirate. But if you’re living in a country where content restrictions or regional pricing isn’t an issue, or if you’re downloading something that isn’t in circulation anymore then you’re in all likelihood pirating because you’re selfish.

It’s their IP, they can distribute it in any way they see fit. It doesn’t entitle you to steal it just because you disagree with how it’s distributed.

I seriously don’t understand the mental gymnastics here. We pirate because we’d rather get something for free than pay for it. There are certainly cases when someone is forced to pirate a product due to copyright restrictions in their country but that isn’t the case most of the time for people like us who pirate. We’re just selfish and there’s noting wrong with admitting that.

Neither of those two examples are at all relevant to this platform and their entire section about Meta and the Fedverse is complete speculation. This community isn’t going anywhere even if they started acting hostile towards a decentralized platform as time went on. Having more communities on this platform is a net positive.

You’d rather have less people than more people on the platform?

Complicated and pointless. There’s no reason why you wouldn’t want more engagement.

What principals? That we’re selfish? I pirate shit all the time but it’s not out of any sort of righteousness, I’d just rather get something for free than pay for it if the option is there.