It’s a closed ecosystem. What else is there to say? Compare with IRC, Matrix or XMPP.
Could you (or someone) elaborate on that first point there?
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
morphballganon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So, it’s the lack of admin rights? Inability to decide your own sitewide TOS, lack of privacy from Discord admins, possibility of getting shut down, that’s what they meant?
(I’m not familiar with those other platforms)
uin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
None of those details really matter.
What matters for the point of this argument is the simple fact that Discord is owned by the company Discord Inc.
That includes all of the servers and everything on them.
Imagine if ALL OF THE INTERNET was owned by Google …
morphballganon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So the worry is of a surveillance state?
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
It’s a closed system owned by a single company. If you provide data or information there, the company owns the data, other people can’t find the data using search engines and they would need an account to access the data. Imagine the internet is owned by a single company and they could sell, change, censor, delete restrict access to or use the data in means you cannot predict.