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A comment on discordo: Lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client. Parent comment

Re:discordo: Lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord t... by YetAnotherNick on Monday August 15, 2022 @07:47PM (#32477248)
You got the causation backwards. There are chat server with open API much before discord like IRC. The only reason discord or something else worked is because they got private funding and operates at loss for many years. And the only reason they got private funding is because they want to reap the benefits of monopoly on its users in future. So if there is some rule like you suggest, discord wouldn't even exist.
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Re:discordo: Lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord t... by franga2000 on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @03:35AM (#32480227)
> So if there is some rule like you suggest, discord wouldn't even exist.

Yes, exactly! Monopolies are bad and shouldn't exist, so companies that only exist to create them shouldn't exist either. Without Discord and other providers wishing to make a chat monopoly for themselves, development would be driven by need. That tends to create solutions that are much more open and less exploitative of its users.

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