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Every now and then I check back here, hard to believe I was a (likely notorious : P) underage user almost a decade ago. This was my first forum way back when, but forums don't really exist anymore! Skype started the job, and Discord's pretty much finished it.

Nonetheless this place is still around, so at least a few other of y'all probably check around here, eh? How's it goin?

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Of course we're still around. :) Forums still exist, and many are popular, although several definitely lost in popularity over the years.

I'm doing fine on my end. The Minecraft thing is what holds the largest part of my focus currently, although I'm always exploring other things. I've been doing more web development lately, and that's always fun.

Not that long ago, Wind made a topic for returning people to check-in, maybe you'll want to give it a look. Since you mentioned Discord, you might be interested to know that we also have a server!


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Holy cow, Dave. How've you been, buddy? I really didn't think I'd ever see you run back through here, again. You've got to be something like 40 by now, right? There aren't a ton of the older group kicking around here anymore, but it's still a nice place. A few of us migrated over to Doc's Minecraft server. I actually mentioned you over in this topic not too long ago.

This was my first forum, too. I have a feeling that the interordi forums are going to be alive until the boss kicks the bucket. Since he's got free healthcare up there, that's probably going to be a while.


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Aww, thanks! Guess I'll hop in the discord server, see what's up.

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Skype and Discord? No way. By the time I heard of Discord, message boards of the type where people actually "know" each other had been unlikely for a long time, and I would have been around the second group of people to be using it, since my boyfriend would have been within the first group, as far as I can tell. Back when people thought Discord was going to be a real/fast/FOSS-like type of software without surveillance and other atrocities, because the design made it visually look like it was.

And as for Skype, that's just another AIM or Yahoo! messenger. Which anyone who became friends IRL is definitely using the whole time, and most people in general. Unless you meant something like people uninstalling MSN to avoid Skype, but then the other, better messengers were still available, along with Trillian/Pidgin. And of course a board can still be populous without people also IM'ing every day.

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lol so I have a Discord server, and on it there's a section for sharing public GPG keys so it actually does get around any and all surveillance, but I'm the only one who seems to use it, which functionally means no one uses it


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The fact that "FOSS alternatives to" anything exist, automatically shows you that said company is not FOSS. There is no "FOSS alternative to Minds" because Minds already does not have any problems besides it's annoying difficult-to-use "interface" and the fact that most of the posts there are long and academic-ish so that you can't just "scroll through".
However, in order to reply to Samsara simply, with just a link instead of a paragraph. Today I find out that Discord is literally one of the WORST companies! Even worse then Facebook by literally collecting or attempting to collect information from the entire machine not only just on phones, but even on COMPUTERS! That's even MORE insane then handing over bulk thousands-of-people data to government agencies with no objection! And in addition to that, Discord is now even Chinese. This was literally the FIRST result on Yandex (unfortunately giving much better search results then Mojeek still), and, although it's Reddit, the author provides a more specific link for each area of the mentioned EXTREME problems.

https://teddit.net/r/privacy/comments/rsxeee/you_should_never_use_discord_and_heres_why/

Like holy wow.

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I know Discord isn't FOSS. They won't even allow alternative clients, they're explicitly against TOS and they aggressively go after them (and lbr their Linux client is hot garbage. Like holy crap, it's bad). And I don't trust them with sensitive data, it's why I share GPG public keys there.

However, the sad fact is a communication platform is only as good as the people you want to talk to, and everyone uses Discord and no one uses encryption. If I wanted to be using a FOSS instant messenger that integrated with our own GPG keys I would be talking to myself. I'd be happy enough if people just went back to using forums. Or, you know, email.