it sounds to me like you trust bill gates to use his piles of money for "good", but the simply fact is nobody should have that much power. would you trust me with all of bill's money? i promise to use it for good.
the simple fact is that humans are fallible, much like how you and i are not likely to come to an agreement here. so who is to say that bill gates (or any billionaire) has successfully defined "good"? what if he's wrong? what if he makes a mistake? there's very few people or entities powerful enough to stop him, and even according to you he is one of the better ones.
being rich and having more than you need is one thing, but billionaires literally have more pull than most of the planet. i don't see why we should be ok with them having nearly all wealth on earth and "charitably" sprinkling some where they deem fit.
i've been feeling the same way the last couple weeks. i like lemmy but there's nothing to see here if you don't want to talk about politics or linux, and it exhibits many of the same things i dislike about other social media platforms as well.
its also making me realize that maybe i don't want "reddit when it didn't suck so bad" but rather what would really bring me the happiness i'm seeking in reddit replacements is likely something entirely unrelated to social media.
its more about treating dead (and living) animals as a commodity for me personally. you probably wouldn't want someone to turn your corpse into a fucked up teddy bear for a laugh.
i'm glad you posted about it - it's something i, and i'm sure many other people who are struggling, tend to think about.
i think it's generally a good thing to talk about these sorts of topics, especially ones like depression where it's easy to get lost in your own thoughts and it can feel like you're the only one suffering like this. i know for a fact that it helped me realize that i'm not alone and that there are ways out of the pit i found myself in, despite feeling like it would never get better and my suffering was so unique that there was no cure.
granted, commiserating alone won't get you back to a happy baseline, but it does broadcast this to others who might not realize it: you are not alone, there are people who care, and it is not impossible to be happy again. i wish you the best.
remember: never share anything and never engage with others. keep all of your thoughts and emotions and ideas to yourself at all times. especially on the internet, a platform designed to enhance global communication!
i agree with op's take but only in the sense that games made with the intent to be esports end up being antithetical to what makes games enjoyable, at least for me. it kinda feels new pvp games are exclusively targeting competitive gamers and the casual online pvp space is shrinking or being driven to older games.
but that might just be my own aversion to being told to take my own life by an angry teenager when I make a mistake while playing with a digital toy to enjoy my time off work.
that's a good point - i might be letting my dislike for discord-as-a-wiki color my argument. i will say that i've had mixed results using the search - sometimes there are no results and sometimes there are plenty of irrelevant results. that's just what you get when basically hitting ctrl+f on who-knows-how-long worth of conversations instead of a purpose-made knowledge base.
i still think that a dedicated wiki/forum/repo available on the web for anyone with the url is far better suited to this purpose than discord is. discord is (arguably) good at being a chat app and its features aren't well tailored to being an easily navigable knowledge base. it feels like jumping through unnecessary hoops to have to join a server on the app i use to share memes with my college roommates to get help troubleshooting some software, or worse, to get access to the only official release of the software.
i can understand your point of technical support, but what the op is calling out is when the only source of docs/support are discord.
i've had multiple experiences firsthand where I needed basic information about a piece of software that really should have just been on a readme or a wiki or something. instead my only option was to repeatedly ask a discord tech support channel and wait for someone who cares/knows about my question to actually answer me.
unless the options are limited, i'd rather simply pick a different solution than be forced to ask a busy discord channel for tech support.
you can't honestly be saying that there are no issues with hosting documentation/support for a project exclusively on discord as opposed to a classic forum or wiki.
even ignoring the issues that you are dismissing (and would not exist on a better suited platform), the people using the discord server do not own it. discord servers have no backup functionality. what happens when an admin goes rogue or gets hacked etc? what happens when people get tired of discord for the next chat app?
you shouldn't have to use a burner email to download a videogame mod or view documentation for an open source project.
just because he did it doesnt mean we should. there is no reason we can't be better.