Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

Good, stop using Discord to host your shit

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

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

Well, that's one more small group of people learning not to trust Discord. I hope someone is on hand to show them how to set up a matrix server in a jurisdiction not affected by the DMCA.

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.

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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

Centralization = easy censorship.

Stop basing your organization on Discord and hosting all your development work there. Don't subject yourself to the whims of venture capital and enshittification.

Diversify your online presence, and find a local company that will host a matrix server for you.

Ooh! I would like to hear from all those who were fervently vouching for Discord as a support channel for FOSS projects.

Perhaps the same might happen to a web forum or matrix channel. But at least you get an opportunity to backup and migrate.

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.

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

sad. but SO predictable that not having a plan B for this situation is laughable

What I find hilarious is that these are just minor hiccups. The emulation scene has existed for a long time and will continue to exist for a long time. None of these recent measures will do anything to stop it as long as the emulator devs aren’t trying to make money off Nintendo IP.

I see discord is entrenched enough where they dont need to care about their users.

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.

That happens if a single company controls the community (Reddit, Discord) and its closed source on top of it..

I don't get why we are always running after our abusers, we have so many FOSS alternatives to this shit. And please don't hit me with that "discord has more users" bullshit. I'm so sick of these fuckers abusing their powers.

Discord is trash anyway, move onto Matrix already

Time to restore a backup on a different hosting provider... what, Discord doesn't let export backups, or self-host it? Well, shouldn't have relied on Discord then.

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?

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

I'm sure all these companies have similar policy that they can stop hosting your things if they don't like to

Just wait, they'll move to Matrix, get legally attacked if they're hosting in a copyright friendly jurisdiction, and say "fuck it, we're going to the darkweb", and Nintendo won't be able to do shit.

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Time for them to move over to Matrix.

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Both Suyu and Sudachi began as forks of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo sued out of existence on March 4th.

Developers of Yuzu’s forks also claimed they were changing the code further, among other practices, in an effort to avoid pissing Nintendo off.

But it’s possible that people were sharing Nintendo’s cryptographic keys, firmware, or even entire pirated games in these servers despite those commitments.

Even if Suyu and Sudachi were infringing, Discord’s policy does not suggest it would permaban, much less nuke entire servers, on the first offense.

Discord did not answer questions about whether these users were repeat copyright infringers, had received any previous warnings, or were forwarded any takedown requests.

Nintendo isn’t just targeting Switch emulators with its latest round of takedowns but also some of the tools that aid them: it sent DMCA takedown requests to GitHub to remove 27 forks of the Sigpatch Updater, as well as Lockpick_RCM, kezplez-nx, and Incognito_RCM, which help Switch owners and developers obtain encryption keys.

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Something something Drake meme Discord/IRC...

Discord should be used as an easy way to keep people up to date and host links, like a replacement for Twitter. Not too be the sole source of hosting info. They should still have websites the discord points to.