• Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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    4 months ago

    Tricks you into believing discord is composed of “servers” when it is in fact all centralized under discord’s direct control. Tricks you into believing private messages are private when they are in fact not encrypted at all. Discord’s business itself is shady

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      4 months ago

      They’re called direct messages, not private messages. They’re not tricking anyone into thinking anything lmao

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        4 months ago

        No, but the entire point of renaming Private Messages to Direct Messages was exclusively so people would have the mindset you do.

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          Umm… People have been using the phrase “Direct message (DM) me” since forever in the game and online comms world. Private message wasn’t a concept until after DMs were later encrypted. And we always knew, that if we didn’t control the servers, even encrypted, those messages were subject the server operators.

          Your logic is giving me the impression that you’re younger and didn’t go through these experiences.

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            4 months ago

            Actually I am not younger, DM’s had always been Private Messages to me up until Facebook/MySpace and more people began flocking to the internet.

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      Lol wut, they never claimed servers were independently controlled. Maybe you just didn’t look into what you were signing up for.

      When you go use different servers on Minecraft realms are you under any impression those are not controlled by Microsoft?

      When you choose a different server on World of Warcraft do you think it’s a non-blizzard server?..

      Like just because you put yourself into a state of bad false assumptions didn’t mean they tried to trick you. People have been saying this about discord from the beginning you just never cared to look.

      Did you actually think this or are you just inventing a person in your mind that this has happened to? Lol

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        4 months ago

        They’re called servers in the UI though. Also, confusingly, there is a new feature coming called guilds.