I highly doubt that when you start a “Discord server”, there’s any new machinery spun up. There is a near 100% chance it’s just an entry in a database. Nobody’s running a server just for him. So I don’t think there’s even reason to be charitable.
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Strider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, he hasn’t been running a discord server. It’s a channel. Discord is running the servers.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
jcorvera@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
The older terminology, which is still used in the API, was a lot better.
It was Guild. It was a Discord Guild. Probably because Stanislav was working on it after he abandoned Guildwork.
exist@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Users (and I think Discord too) call the communities servers, and channels are the individual topics/threads in a community. It might not make sense from a hosting perspective but people do call it that
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
God, I hated that terminology when I needed to talk with people about discord.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can only assume it’s on purpose so average users really understand it wrong to avoid the associated negative view. Clever, really. But absolutely evil.
izax@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
This wasn’t intended to be misleading. The term “Server” as in a Discord Server is because, be fore Discord were the days of Ventrilo and TeamSpeak. For many of us gamers used to have to run or pay for their own actual server to have that kind of functionality. Then we’d combine direct calling with Skype for small groups and video. The term made sense at the time, but hasn’t held up to the test of time. Basically Discord solved a problems of having to pay for those servers, and having to use two separate programs.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m a it professional (working in enterprise DCs) and have been running ts2 and murmur myself. It was misleading from the beginning and while I do understand your point I can not see a company doing this in good faith, I am too old for that.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
You didn’t provide any evidence that it wasn’t misleading. Discord was clearly intended to replace communities like IRC, Ventrilo and TeamSpeak so they used language that was familiar to them, even though it was completely incorrect.