<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> i mean girls</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> you mean HeLa cells?</p>

<p>it&#39;s really funny to watch billionaires dream of immortality, knowing a bunch of entities who are (information theoretically) immortal and extensively take advantage of it</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mk.asie.pl/@asie" class="u-url mention">@<span>asie</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://void.rehab/@mia" class="u-url mention">@<span>mia</span></a></span> the free software analogy is frankly a red herring because basically every open platform has plenty of messengers for every OS, it&#39;s just done by people favoring that OS. multiplatform development is a bit much for one individual usually, which is why we cooperate</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mk.asie.pl/@asie" class="u-url mention">@<span>asie</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://void.rehab/@mia" class="u-url mention">@<span>mia</span></a></span> yes. replace &quot;capitalist conspiracy&quot; above with &quot;business decision&quot; and it is a factually accurate statement. developers aren&#39;t working on Discord because they love Electron, they do it because they&#39;re paid to. they could be paid to do it in Qt if someone gave a shit</p>

<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@whitequark@mastodon.social</a> <a href="https://void.rehab/@mia" class="u-url mention">@mia@void.rehab</a> not to mention Discord's competitor, Telegram, has a bunch of clients across supported platforms. in fact it was a small part of what drew my techy friends to the platform to begin with, I think - irrespective of the, uh, controversies and general reputation it has accumulated over the years</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network/@littlefox" class="u-url mention">@<span>littlefox</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention">@<span>foone</span></a></span> correct</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention">@<span>foone</span></a></span> it would probably not work</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://void.rehab/@mia" class="u-url mention">@<span>mia</span></a></span> you brought up your personal experience so I brought mine, it&#39;s not really central to the argument, other than showing that giving a shit is a rare trait</p>