It’s been a pretty common practice for years for online services. At my previous job we implemented something like this too, making a guess at the gender of users based on just their name and some additional information. The only reason we did that is because we didn’t want to ask people for their gender when they registered, we only needed the data for investor reporting and marketing decisions, and both of those use cases are OK with a rather large margin of error.
I assume Discord would do this for similar reasons.
Mazoku@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Oh cool the 100th article about Discord being a hot pile of dogshit.
Well everyone will still use it anyways
errer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Serious question: what is an alternative? They’re all dogshit.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Matrix.
It still sucks, but it’s at least FOSS, and you can host your own instance if you want full control.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Revolt (it’s FOSS)
Petter1@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Discourse is a way, but matrix works as well
rab@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s like everyone forgot teamspeak exists overnight
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The alternative is IRC. I’m not sure why that’s not an option anymore when Discord is just IRC with a few extra features.