>It'd be amazing if we could actually directly (from a technical perspective) message other people, without needing central servers between us. How could you d

>It'd be amazing if we could actually directly (from a technical perspective) message other people, without needing central servers between us. How could you do this while also preserving network privacy between users? One of the big selling points of Discord is users can't see each other's IP addresses when they message or call each other. I believe you would need at least a simple relay in the middle to prevent that. Or layer it on some Tor-like anonymizing network, but I think that wouldn't be practical for this use case (especially video calls). This is especially important for not just the typical privacy reasons: Discord is marketed heavily towards gamers, and some gaming communities are filled with script kiddies who rent "booter" (DDoS-for-hire) services to knock opponents online, to torment them and/or to gain an upper hand in games where disconnection means automatic forfeiture. This was one reason a lot of people switched from Skype to Discord, because Skype had many ways of seeing other users' IP addresses.