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 | opinions are my own but more than likely they come from Vitalik's blog paragraph.xyz/@chaskin

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

Contributor @ /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.