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darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

But pretty much all of these organizations have their own Discord servers, don’t they?

So why would it matter so much what the parent company does? If some changes are seen as unacceptable one could simply just not apply them to one’a own server. (It’s not like the Discord company could force anyone to run some particular software on their server. How would that even work.)

I don’t understand why people care what Discord does. If they do enough unwelcome changes the people who run their own servers will simply detach from the parent company.

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superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You can’t host your own Discord server

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- darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What do you mean by that? Tons of organizations, groups and people publish that they have their own Discord servers.
  
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  - aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    yes, but they’re still hosted by discord. Discord isn’t open source.
    
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    darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    What do you mean, how could your own server be “hosted by discord”?
    
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  - stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    What is called a “Discord Server” isn’t a server as we know it, it is more of a hub of services that all runs on Discord’s systems.
    
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  - superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    They are not hosting it themselves. All infrastructure and fully controlled by Discord and they are subject to all Discord rules and decesions.
    
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Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Having a Discord server” doesn’t mean what those words normally mean.

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- darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  What’s that supposed to mean?
  
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  - Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s more like claiming to own a subreddit, or a Twitter hashtag.
    
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