Interesting argument. I’d be curious if you know roughly how many plural people there are (let’s say headcounts as there’s only one body) compared to Discord’s user base. (150 million active users per month according to random half-assed google search)
But your point was that this is actively keeping people on Discord? By extension, that must mean that a significant bulk of those 150M users are kept on Discord because it has PluralKit. How do you reconcile that with the group of plurals being, apparently, quite small? To the point where even on Beehaw/Lemmy almost nobody seems to even have heard of it.
Look, I know I’m being a hardass about this, but progress is not achieved through wishful thinking, but by understanding market forces and ensuring the inevitable consequences of them are as minimally harmful to marginalized populations as possible.
What happens when discord pulls a Reddit and disables bot access for some bullshit money reason? Then all PluralKit users are SoL
As presumptuous as I know this is, what your post and article should have been about is an explanation of how Pluralkit benefits you in the discord workflow, and how that might be best adapted to better and more user respectful platforms so that the transition of some groups becomes easier once discord starts pulling the inevitable shit.
Interesting argument. I’d be curious if you know roughly how many plural people there are (let’s say headcounts as there’s only one body) compared to Discord’s user base. (150 million active users per month according to random half-assed google search)
No, I don’t know.
But your point was that this is actively keeping people on Discord? By extension, that must mean that a significant bulk of those 150M users are kept on Discord because it has PluralKit. How do you reconcile that with the group of plurals being, apparently, quite small? To the point where even on Beehaw/Lemmy almost nobody seems to even have heard of it.
Well, there are a lot of discord users who are allies and believe in supporting others, and that’s why
Ever heard of the terms faulty generalisation, sampling bias, or echo chamber?
Dozens * Dozens of allies = hundreds
Hundreds / 150,000,000 = not enough to matter to the reasons you state it does
No, I know dozens of systems personally, and the systems I know are definitely a tiny fraction of all the systems on Discord.
Fine.
Dozens * dozens * hundreds of communities perhaps unknown = thousands
Still not enough to make a meaningful difference.
Look, I know I’m being a hardass about this, but progress is not achieved through wishful thinking, but by understanding market forces and ensuring the inevitable consequences of them are as minimally harmful to marginalized populations as possible.
What happens when discord pulls a Reddit and disables bot access for some bullshit money reason? Then all PluralKit users are SoL
As presumptuous as I know this is, what your post and article should have been about is an explanation of how Pluralkit benefits you in the discord workflow, and how that might be best adapted to better and more user respectful platforms so that the transition of some groups becomes easier once discord starts pulling the inevitable shit.