Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

Maybe they should have picked any of the available chat options that aren't totally proprietary?

Good, stop using Discord to host your shit

i think thats a little extreme, cant they just remove the content and block them? also why does discord have weapons of mass destruction in the first place?

Time for them to move over to Matrix.

Everyone here is saying not to use Discord, but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo's lawyers send them a letter? Like sure, hate Discord, but the problem here clearly lies with Nintendo.

You can blame both corporations, you don't need to suck any corpo cock. Nintendo sends the takedowns in the first place, which sure is Nintendon't, and Discord heeds them despite otherwise profiting from those communities and without allowing any sort of measure.
- You can blame both corporations
  I don't remember saying otherwise. I just found it odd that everyone was talking about Discord (at the time of posting), and there was very little discussion around Nintendo's involvement in encouraging (and participating in) such toxic behavior.
  without allowing any sort of measure.
  This is what I find unacceptable in Discord's case. Options should have been given to the devs/server admins.

Walled garden platforms doing what walled garden platforms do I suppose...

This has nothing to do with being a walled platform. All these maintainers of all these lemmy servers would have to do the exact same thing if Nintendo came to them. And if they refused then Nintendo could go to the server host. And if that didn’t work you would end up in court. It has nothing to do with walled gardens and everything to do with Nintendo abusing dmca.
- All these maintainers of all these lemmy servers would have to do the exact same thing if Nintendo came to them.
  yes but then the community would move to another lemmy host and it would turn into a game of whack a mole for Nintendo. There is no other Discord host.

Guess what? This will make them stronger. Suyu's GitLab repo was already DMCA'd, after that they set up their own Forgejo instance. They also get their website running again (It was down for a few days, I don't know the reason) and they're now strong and independent. Moving away from Discord will only increase their independence.

Suyu died though. Right now the only actively maintained Yuzu fork is Sudachi, which is only maintained by a single person.
Apparently there was some drama about the Yuzu devs using code which came from a switch SDK as a basis for emulator code, which kind of poisons the whole codebase.
I wonder if the codeberg site is vulnerable to such laws. I think they operate from the EU.
- They're based in Germany, so it should be fine. But I think they said at some point that they don't want any trouble with DMCA code.
- Germany specifically

I don't understand using Discord for documentation or official dev communications, it just doesn't sound reliable even if you aren't chancing running afoul of a billionaire corp or DMCA. Not to mention, there's now an extra barrier to entry to your project.

User communities and just chatting is fine, but it just makes way more sense to have a forum or other location for documentation and collaboration to happen that can be archived, backed up, and uploaded on other services as well.

If all else fails, just make a .onion site or forum for it

I loving all the discord hate here. I’ve never understood why people like it.

Convenient, easy to use, large user base, one point registration for multiple communities, tends to simply just work.
But is it the best? Nah. And their increased monetisation drives are annoying.
- one point registration for multiple communities,
  Federation, or at least some form of single sign-on with arbitrary providers (like we used to do with OpenID), is a better way of solving this.

We need to go back to pre-discord and bring back forums man. Don't get me wrong, discord has its uses, all my friends use it, but discord killing forums and websites was really bad for the internet as a whole. Like look at dolphin, made before discord, it has its own website, its own forums. Hopefully if Nintendo does ever come after dolphin they'll at least be able to keep the website and forums up.

I understand that Lemmy hates Discord, but this is FAR more of Nintendo being an asshat than it is Discord. I'm so far done giving Nintendo my money at this point

edit: I just wanna point out that Corgana posted a response that was straight up false, I called him out on it with proof, he edited his response instead of replying to me to make my response to him look bad, and then when I called him out on that by putting what his original response was in my response, he deleted hos post to try and hide his shame. This user apparently has a history of doing this, and I find this HIGHLY manipulative and scummy, so I'm putting this edit here so that he cant hide his actions by deleting them because I called him out before any damage could be done

- Not sure if your sarcasm is towards me or towards someone who'd defend Nintendo, but tbh I'm getting tired of Mega Corps in general (not that I ever really liked them in the first place), so asshats like Nintendo who go above and beyond being a dick because they have the legal team to do so I'm just done giving money to. Indie workers/companies of all fields I'll try and get money to, but I kind of just want to see the current crop of mega corps sink and not come back

Discord sucks so much. I wish it wasn't so popular.