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Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation (habr.com)
submitted 9 months ago by Wilshire to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

please do show me a single messaging platform that can easily and sanely house a population of >50k people on the same server, and allows that for absolutely free, while providing reasonably high quality voice messaging and streaming with negligible latency

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While discord doesn't necessarily cost money, it for sure also isn't free. In fact it's the reddit problem but way worse. A proprietary non-searchable database with all content fully licensed to discord including the right to sub-license. At least, Reddit had an API and is still searchable through their public facing http. I mean I get people don't want their group messages readable by everyone, bit for large groups, it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago

No it does not.
The Group chat is a chat.
The public chat is basically a never ending forum post with 100 pages.

[–] Serinus 12 points 9 months ago

IRC + Mumble.

We had these things in 2007

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why would I ever want that?

I can’t think of a single instance where I want to be messaging 50k people at once

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You're doing it right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I was gonna be like weeeell but the population of c/technology is in fact 52k so

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I am posting something publicly but I am not holding a conversation with all of you simultaneously

If this was equivalent then you would have never seen my message due to the time between ours

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Hence you shouldn't use discord

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Matrix?