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The disappearance of forum public discussion to unsearchable, unpreserved, discord semi-private discussion chambers is probably the largest informational catastrophe of the internet so far.
I potentially agree, but as a possible competitor, I submit:
Everything DOGE has done in the last 3 months.
That information was at least available to capture.
With discord it was EULA-walled and anti-scraper locked
... No no no it all wasn't.
The DOGE goons made up multiple logins to multiple US Gov databases that are not open to the public... inucluding the DoD's SIPRNet...
... and we know at least some of these logins were also used from utterly unsecure personal devices, remotely, not onsite, and that they've been getting used by IP addresses from all over the place, all over the world, meaning said login creds have either outright been given away, or been compromised by other nation state's hackers, or just total rando hackers.
But I want something like Discord. Just not corporate owned...
Matrix?
Not as featureful, but my friends and I run our own xmpp server