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I think this is difficult because discord have changed the meaning of the word server for it’s usage. From a technical perspective discord is definitely central

I think this is difficult because discord have changed the meaning of the word server for it’s usage. From a technical perspective discord is definitely centralised. I think you mean the user experience is more democratised maybe? Perhaps that also isn’t the correct word.

charcircuit 5y ago
>discord have changed the meaning of the word server for it’s usage They haven't though. It's the same meaning as in an IRC server or a Mumble server. It's just managed by Discord. A similar thing has happened to the physical server market with cloud hosting. You have a company manage all the complications with actually deploying a server for you and taken care of for you by them automatically. This offers a great UX for people who just want to have a server deployed. If a piece of decentralized software is hosted on 3 AWS VPS is it decentralized even though Amazon owns the actual servers it's running on and dictates rules on what you can host?
- smoldesu 5y ago
  > If a piece of decentralized software is hosted on 3 AWS VPS is it decentralized Ostensibly, yes. If Amazon decides to stop hosting my software, I can move it to a competing distributor or host it myself. That is not an option with Discord.