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It blows my mind that people will hang out in a Discord for a VPS provider and express their political opinions. Communities form around anything nowadays.
by frakkingcylons 6y ago
It blows my mind that people will hang out in a Discord for a VPS provider and express their political opinions. Communities form around anything nowadays.
- dannyw 6y agoBuyVM is more or less a free speech host: if it's legal, they'll (usually) host it. It's my view that we need this on the internet.
- frakkingcylons 6y agoI'm not for or against BuyVM. I'm just surprised that nowadays people will hang out in a VPS provider's Discord. Like if Wawa had a Discord and people decided to hang out there. I just don't get it.
- ivraatiems 6y agoI think people would totally do that for Wawa. I know some people who are crazy into the whole Wawa vs Sheetz debate. There's a whole community around "low-end" VPS and server hosting, and BuyVM's staff have historically been active figures in that community. The Discord is an offshoot of that. It's not all that unusual; a lot of companies do community outreach by running communities for people who do things related to their services. Digital Ocean themselves do this in another form with their documentation libraries. BuyVM's brand relies on the perception that they are laid-back, pro-free-speech, friendly, and helpful. The Discord is a way of broadcasting that. Now, personally - I think that attracts some people I wouldn't prefer to attract. But I know they've drawn lines in the past (banning overtly anti-Semitic people, for instance), so, fair enough. Their pro-speech attitude helped me when a site I ran was subjected to bogus legal threats from an unhinged former user.