@irie@lauralt The reason drama happens so much on Discord IMO is due to the "forum moderator" or "imageboard janny" problem: aside from central Discord moderation sucking up to anything approved by Blackrock (what did you expect from a San Fran tech company honestly), Discord servers give midwits who work at McDonald's or live in mom's basement the illusion of power.
Gone are the days of having to get your friends to sign up for your Top Gamer 420 forum on proboards/freeforums/similar or having to set up phpBB or some shitty nulled vbulletin crack full of exploits, instead you just need to spin up a Discord "server". There's also the exclusivity aspect since peasants with a web browser can't view it, which infamously has affected sites like ResetEra and NeoGAF before this, early BlueSky, and SomethingAwful.
As a result, Discord tends to attract the bottom feeder garbage who can now feel like kings. This includes skid groups (see the Telegram/Discord "CCP" group that zoombombed Yung Thug's trial or the current spam wave), skids who also use Discord groups as a C&C server (there have been pieces of malware documented to do just this multiple times), the very real "Discord Trannies" who groom/wage gayops and adjacent groups, power tripping software developers, and more.
This is on top of dark patterns like completely erasing chat history and the idea of you even being in the server if you are kicked/banned from a server, and people online not being well behaved whatsoever. Peace on a Discord server is reliant on a trigger word not being said to turn the server into a seethefest. average discord dev.webp
I've heard Russia's ramping up production of their planes again now that they actually have to, so you might end up flying on some weird aircraft without having to risk going to fucking NK if that's your autism.
@mrsaturday@mint@Weeble@koimoa@whut inkbunny made a rule that banned pedo advocacy and the meltdowns from some of the people here was immense despite all the people coming out in support of the rule image.png image.png
They had such broad versions of the definition that artists quit. Sonic porn is bad to furaffinity admins, which is why many of them went to pre-ban Tumblr/Twitter/newgrounds.
That whole fiasco is why I never take anything like that at face value.
@koimoa@Weeble@whut the other thing with Tumblr is being it's been nearly 6 years since Verizon broke the internet, people have nostalgia for it like this side of the internet does for 4chan given how often tumblr screenshots are posted.
Unlike 4chan people never ate the loss and moved here, and it's community is too neurotic to do so anyway. It's more neurotic than the "FEDS could be here" imageboard posters.
@koimoa@Weeble@whut lj was a corner of the internet, Tumblr and then Twitter were increasingly centralized and giving said groups more power.
Tumblr seems quiet because the porn ban was the site being declared a suicide with two shots to the back of the head and tied to the railroad tracks.
The closest replacement is cohost UI wise, but the code sure as hell isn't open, it's a walled garden by design, and the community isn't diluted but rather a microcosm of tumblrs finest.
@koimoa@Weeble@whut@mrsaturday it's hype and pr awareness. Western furry artists moved to bluesky en masse or said they did (until they saw the numbers).
There's a reason why DSP, Wings, and now even KingCobraJFS have women dating them (even though they're all in awkward relationships): women see streamer and think fame and money comes their way, and many streamers are socially awkward autists who can be pushovers. Or they end up with the abusive/coomer type and the "don't fuck your fans" rule comes up again.
@RehnSturm256@marine@Tony I'm convinced after seeing my wigger neighbor abusing his girlfriend that the women fucking black dudes thing is a phenotype. They're not attracted because they're black, they're attracted because they're getting to bang a thug. Which of course comes with thug problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X9majRX6bo
@Hoss@theorytoe imagine if some 13 year old signed up on some random abandoned mastodon instance and used it to post a threat like Alex "not a fed" Linder did?