Thinking out loud about the problems of still using Discord in 2025.

Thinking out loud about the problems of still using Discord in 2025.
https://paragraph.xyz/@dfern.eth/the-communication-paradox

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

The truth hurts to read

"By continuing to rely primarily on centralized platforms, the Ethereum community risks undermining its own message. Each time a developer chooses Discord over Matrix, or Twitter over Farcaster, they tacitly signal that the advantages of centralized systems outweigh the values of decentralization."

Because I don't see the dynamic changing anytime soon

/ethereum foundation | the tools we create will set us free paragraph.xyz/@chaskin

wen commitment from EF researchers to dual-post on Farcaster and Twitter?

Wannabe contributor for /walletbeat.

Censorship resistance requires privacy.

A lot of them do! To be fair, I'm actually more miffed about Discord than Twitter. At least Twitter is ostensibly public, like GitHub or Pastebin. Discord is always an invite-by-link system, which is private by default. So if Discord were to die, nobody could archive the history.

It's really the worst non-dev influencers who will put .eth in their handles and then never use FC because their following on Twitter is already massive and they prefer the algo that elevates their engagement bait.