Is there any advantage to joining vendor discords and telegrams?

[GimmeABreak]

I don’t know that we should link to it publicly. I know they did on Reddit, but I think that’s part of the issue.

You're right, that was a bonehead move. It's all my fault .

I think the normal process they use for new users is to funnel people to their discord site and then give them the TG link from there.

 

[chmuse]

Telegram used to be safer, until it's owner was arrested and indicted and agreed to start sharing user information with the authorities, and to be cooperative.

Makes sense. I'm probably on a watchlist already anyway, for a myriad of reasons. What's one more?

 

[Deeubee]

I don't know why anyone would say forums like these are better than Vendor discords or telegram

 

[chmuse]

I don't know why anyone would say forums like these are better than Vendor discords or telegram

It's a volume problem..... There's just sooooo many messages happening all at once that it's hard to follow a conversation or reply before there's another ten messages.

I'm too young to be this old.

 

[Deeubee]

It's a volume problem..... There's just sooooo many messages happening all at once that it's hard to follow a conversation or reply before there's another ten messages.

I'm too young to be this old.

I just mute everything, mark everything as read, and search the info I want. Vendor servers are quite helpful, especially of the vendor is active there

 

[exploitedworkerbee]

I don't know why anyone would say forums like these are better than Vendor discords or telegram

Love it or hate it, this forum is a hell of a lot less likely to be nuked than any of those others. Self-hosted in a country beyond the reach of pharma’s political influence.

 

[YoYoFat]

Yeah, I'm feeling a little bad about the conspicuous link in the guide

The Mods have asked that it not be linked. And many newbies are entering the brand new one without a clue. I thought there was a reciprocal agreement to not link between the two.

I’m just trying to honor that.

 

[chmuse]

The Mods have asked that it not be linked. And many newbies are entering the brand new one without a clue. I thought there was a reciprocal agreement to not link between the two.

I’m just trying to honor that.

When I checked the rules originally, it didn't say anything about not linking to it. From now on I'll just funnel people here. I won't be posting the new link. One of their mods even commented in this thread with some guides- if they'd asked me to remove the links, I absolutely would have asked @exploitedworkerbee to do me a solid. (Btw, bee, we should remove the dead links.)

Edit: I'm in the wrong thread. I just woke up. Thought I was in the guide thread. Either way I'm not posting links anymore.