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Discord exists because people are killed, stalked, and otherwise harassed from IP exposure. That's its 'be safe' purpose. It's not simply a chat service. You a
by devwastaken 6y ago
Discord exists because people are killed, stalked, and otherwise harassed from IP exposure. That's its 'be safe' purpose.
It's not simply a chat service. You also have proxied video calls and VoIP. That in itself is far more expensive and resource heavy than decentralized hosters can do at scale.
It's not about proprietary protocols, it's that we already had decentralized solutions that cant protect it's users. Centralization is a requirement at that point if you want it to be popular and scale.
- swiley 6y agoI thought discord shared your IP with chat room admins. I don’t remember very well.
- devwastaken 6y agoNo. You can be banned from individual servers by IP, but admins of those servers don't actually see it.
- nitrogen 6y agoI am not familiar with Discord's hosting model. Can you host a server on your own hardware, or are all servers run by Discord?
- devwastaken 6y agoIt's all on discords services. You don't host your own.
- swiley 6y agoThey did the Microsoft thing and misused a word to confuse people. A Discord server is more or less a chat room on the Discord service.
- yogthos 6y agoThis is completely tangential to using open communication protocols.
- devwastaken 6y agoOpen communication protocols currently have no goal of ip protection, and by design cannot unless it's centralized.
- yogthos 6y agoOnce again, it's a completely separate issue. You can have a centralized service that also uses an open protocol that people can make custom clients for. Furthermore, people use stuff like Tor for anonymity with decentralized systems. Trusting a central system to keep your information private is a risk of itself.