# Discord, or the Death of Lore « ASCII by Jason Scott

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## What Jamie wrote

Scott reminding us that closed systems like Discord (and others) don't have great ways to pull all the history that people are creating in them out to the open web, or frankly anywhere else. The Geocities moment for Discord, assuming that happens which is a when not an if, will be hard.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT246: Weekly Thing #246 / Banks, Stablecoin, Trust](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/246/), Notable

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- [MAME and the New Emulation Reality « ASCII by Jason Scott](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c5005ba564e9/) (ascii.textfiles.com, May 30, 2015)

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