I don’t know exactly know what Discord is because I don’t use it, but it seems to be a hotbed for young anarchists, chaos planning, and murder coordination?
What’s in the water there?
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I believe Discord began as a communication channel for gamers.
It's spread out since then to be a source of support, or a tool for support groups and others. But as far as I know, it is not really very secure.
And I just don't particularly like the user interface. (Personal reflections.)
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Gamers use discord a lot
It's a gaming chat platform. Also heavily used by crypto degenerates.
It's like a small forum today and each forum is a server.
It has or had 150 million monthly active users so
It's a chat & voice comms platform. Started as gaming focused but it's everywhere now. It's replaced a lot of old Internet forums. The chamber of commerce and downtown business association in my city even use it for discussions & planning.
I hate it's design, but have to use it 😓
Heard of it. Never used it🤷.
This is a classic case of online impression vs the real world. There’s insanely many different discord servers and most of them are used legitimately by normal human beings, especially gamers. Then there’s a small minority using it for illegal, or just straight up stupid things, which does get media attention. Don’t lump them all together.
Think nostr relay chat but centralized. Discord basically gave everyone free chatrooms and voice chat rooms for their own communities. Since it was better than teamspeak and also didn't require you to get your own paid server it became very popular. We have a discord server for our AI software for example where our users can hang out with each other, discuss local AI models, discuss the software and interrate on development that sort of thing.
The culture in a server depends immensely on what who made it / moderates it. So theres no specific thing there as theres not really a central big server everyone has in common.
Discord has been used successfuly for illegal actions, because it had encryption and it was not attracting attention since gamers used it, and that is why it had some name. It is hyped though.
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aptly named at least
Thanks for asking because I didn't know either.