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Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification (gizmodo.com)

submitted 2 months ago by PlasticLove@lemmy.today to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I never got the fact that Discord uses the "server" name for what is effectively a hub.

I use Discord every week, when me and my friend are gaming.

Before that we used Steam's built in system, and before that I hosted my own Mumble server.

Discord is decent, it makes it super easy to stream to stream you monitor to others in your hub, that is a brilliant feature.

Steam is fine for one on one chat, a bit more complicated than needed with group chats last time I used it.

Mumble has excellent voice quallity.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I never got the fact that Discord uses the "server" name for what is effectively a hub.

They use the term "server" because it harps back to the days of IRC where communities lived on a single server (or federation of servers). But your right, they should call it communities, and not servers since they're not individually operated servers.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Internally / in their documentation, they actually refer to servers as "guilds".

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

That is a way better term