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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It does have to do with being a walled platform though. You as the Discord server owner have zero control over whether or not you are taken down. If this was Lemmy or a Discourse server (to go with something a little closer to walled garden) that they ran, the hosting provider or a court would have to take them down. Even then the hosting provider wouldn’t be a huge deal since you could just restore backup to a new one Pirate Bay style. Hell, depending on whether or not the devs are anonymous (probably not if they used Discord), they could just move the server to a new jurisdiction that doesn’t care. The IW4 mod for MW2 2009 was forked and the moved to Tor when Activision came running for them so this isn’t even unprecedented.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think their point was, all things being equal, a server on discord vs a community on a Lemmy instance doesn't make a difference. In both cases, the people who ultimately own the platform have to decide whether to just delete them or go toe-to-toe with Nintendo in court.

    Hosting everything themselves is a different story. Though...is it possible for a federated instance to exist inside the tor network? Maybe that's already a huge thing and it never occurred to me.

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