I haven't used Discord in maybe 3 years now (I think longer?) I was one of the early, early adopters, with my own first name as my username. But I found it to be a rather suffocating, rather than liberatory, place, which simply reproduced the very social structures I experienced in the rest of the world; often, if it was the nexus of a certain social life, the extreme power which moderators weld to totally socially exclude someone was sickening, and the kinds of sexual exploitation that happens on the platform is merely a symptom of that, a symptom of a much wider social ill which birthed the platform as a whole--an overriding resentment for real-world sociality for being based in exclusionary institutions, transformed into an exclusionary architecture infinitely grander and more severe the further the users were separated by regular social institutions and geographic location, thus increasing the power of both the moderators, but, also and more essentially the owners of Discord, who, by establishing such an architecture sought for nothing but Absolute power--this, all, now just for profit of the VCs.<p>However, such a severe system of domination has, at its core, just one single problem, the problem which we are seeing today: a mass outage, like this, must, by its nature, affect every user of the service. Mastadon, to note, does not have this problem--but even Mastadon, like Discord, relies on the electric grid and the system of production from which such a service is produced, which at all levels seeks to continuously generate and regenerate itself in all its social functions.