Why did Discord delete it? Was it part of their broader NSFW crackdown (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/discord-nsfw-ban-furry-porn-server-1155178/), or just - total moonshot of a guess here - models reporting content they themselves have shared but don't like when other people share?
I'm personally a fan of anonymous and decentralized. Maybe running our own Mastodon server is a better way? Also, requiring X posts/thanks/contributor-level/whatever to get a chat invite?
No detailed specifications, 'violation of intellectual property', which is more likely to be related to things posted on the tpb rooms than what i shared personally. Reporting could have caused it or general policy.
It doesn't matter, it's gone now and is not coming back.
I could easily setup our Matrix server again, which has served us well but i have not bothered to setup again after the server crash since most people were using Discord anyway. Guess i should have...
Ideally it would be completely distributed (serverless), like Jami, Session or Tox. Which means of course that no amount of complaints or threads could take it down, even if the connection of the admins or moderators is cut by the ISP. The community would go on.
Unfortunately they all lack critical functionality at this point.
Jami, is still working on its Swarm protocol that allows groups/communities. Currently only video/audio groups are possible. I expect they will roll it out before the end of the year. Definitely on my radar.
Session, has group/community support but each member has equal and full permissions. That's going to be a PITA to moderate and avoid spam.
Tox, limited support for group/community, no media attachments at this point, conflicting protocol implementations depending on the client/platform.
Why bother with this complicated serverless stuff? Because over the years we've received numerous threads and as wonderfully demonstrated again with Discord, it's a matter of time before either the domain gets cut off or the server gets suspended. Even on the right end legally, the 'shut down' comes first, legal processes come later and take a lot of time. The amount of threats has been going down over the years, but the aggression with which they are made is increasing. With that, the risk of getting cut off increases.
For now i think i'll try to find some time to restore the Matrix server and i'll keep my eyes open for alternative ways to guarantee the survival of this community
