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I wonder about how younger people have access to more distributed services these days, like Minecraft, selecting servers, there are more opportunities for inter
by dpflan 4y ago
I wonder about how younger people have access to more distributed services these days, like Minecraft, selecting servers, there are more opportunities for interacting with services like Discord -- essentially things that are less consolidated than say FB or IG. So there becomes a preference/familiarity with the concept of distributed services and affinity for them (federation)...perhaps?
- IgorPartola 4y agoHere is the thing that Discord got right: 1. Signing up and joining a server is dead simple. Anyone from 6 to 86 can figure it out in a minute. 2. Discord mimics our social circles instead of trying to redefine them. Remember the panic college kids who first joined FB felt when they realized their parents and employers were on there as well? Discord doesn’t have that problem. Google Plus circles was a similar idea except it was overthought and way too engineered. Discord is just group chat where you get to define your groups. It can use a few more features in terms of moderation, etc. but it really just works for the use case of talking to your coworkers, family, D&D group, and sky diving club without having to mix them all into one feed. It’s the equivalent of SMS group messages without the hassle of exchanging phone numbers between all parties so everyone knows who everyone is. That’s it.
- theGnuMe 4y ago#2 is the killer app.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoI find the concept of servers really hard to explain to anybody...