Comment on would it be simpler for people if we said "proxy" instead of "instance"?
nix@merv.news 1 year agoi know discord servers are run on your own servers but us using the term would both be accurate and be understandable by the average person.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
No, calling Discord groups/communities/guilds “servers” is not accurate and is totally wrong. You cannot create your own Discord server and Discord would never let you.
It’s like calling Facebook a website hosting, because you can create a “site” on it.
quicklime@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I haven’t been on FB for several years, but ugh there was a while in the late 2010s when so many people over there were referring to FB groups as sites and just arghh arrghh aaarrgghhh.
nix@merv.news 1 year ago
…. Im talking about lemmy servers. Calling lemmy instances servers. I domt care what people call discord servers im saying they already call them servers and people will understand what a lemmy server is because they already know what a discord server is and the concept is similar enough they will understand how lemmy servers work and can still communicate with one another.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Ah, I think I get it now.