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"servers" I don't think anybody actually cares, but I resent discord for this terminology.

• rglullis 2y ago
  I hate it as well, mostly for the fact that people don't understand how Matrix is decentralized. They think "join matrix.org and create a space" as the same as "creating their own server".
  • realfeel78 2y ago
    Life is hard.
• hxii 2y ago
  Most of us do, I think. Then again, what would you label them as? A space? A domain?
  • RunSet 2y ago
    Yahoo called them "groups".
  • anthk 2y ago
    Room.
  • Fuzzwah 2y ago
    In the API they're referred to as a `guild`
• bangaroo 2y ago
  there is an entire generation conditioned to call any group chat or instance a “server” and the pedant in me absolutely wants to scream every time I hear it I believe the origin, however, was to help it clearly and directly compete with teamspeak or mumble at the time it launched. You would actually have to invest in some sort of hosted server for your group, so the name made sense as a way to help people visualize how discord worked. It’s definitely a relic at this point though.
  • realfeel78 2y ago
    Relic isn't the word. They've changed/expanded the meaning of the term.
  • whamlastxmas 2y ago
    If we’re doing pedantry Olympics then the definition of server: “a computer or computer program which manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network” Seems like it could apply to a discord group. The centralized resource being chat data.
• realfeel78 2y ago
  Now you know how my dad feels about the terms "engineer" and "software architect" being used for software developers.