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Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost

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139 points exists | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 20:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source
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colesantiago ◴[23 Jun 25 20:46 UTC] No.44359902[source]▶
Repeat after me and frame this.

Never build your main business on somebody else's platform.

Always assume that you will get shutdown / rugged when you do so.

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lordnacho ◴[23 Jun 25 21:09 UTC] No.44360134[source]▶
How are you going to avoid Microsoft, Apple, Google, and AWS? The most common OS, browser, and infra platforms.

You have to build on something, and there's going to be a corporation somewhere in your stack.

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1. adesanmi ◴[23 Jun 25 21:34 UTC] No.44360385[source]▶
These companies charge money for their services and have competitors. AWS’ entire business models is providing developer services, and if I don’t like their offerings I can go elsewhere.

Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc. that have become hostile to third parties have free APIs to reel in developers to make their platform more attractive to users, and once they’ve reached critical mass, they turn around and fuck over those developers. This is because their primary business model is serving their users, and developers eventually “get in the way”.

So the person you’re replying to should add an addendum: never build your app/business on top of third parties IF their primary business models aren’t providing services to developers.