Discord is just another social media site that has a whole lot of people fooled into thinking it’s not creating profiles on them for advertising. Gonna get real obvious real soon though.

I guess thats OK for community dev teams and stuff - like it works well, users can come and accesa the faq or support and leave. But it can leave a walled garden of data in there if they want to move elsewhere later though.

Larger issue is the people that share their whole lives there as a quasi-Facebook. That’s all getting hoovered up and sold to the highest bidder - alongside data like exactly what activity you do on your PC (processes running when and where for how long etc - Discord monitors a lot)

Better though because you don’t need an account, and can gain a lot of anonymity via an eggdrop or vpshell etc.

Coupled with other recent actions by the White House and DHS I’d say it’s very reasonable to file this under stochastic terrorism. They know the likely violent outcome, they are hoping for that outcome, but they’re doing it under a guise of “just sharing information” with “a concerned public” whom are “under attack”.

It gets thrown around a lot but Orwell’s 1984 has a passage, the context in the book is the protanonist realizing specifically about how it is impossible to argue against the fascist party as they happily substitute alternate facts whenever desired, and mandate the loyal adopt them wholesale.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

This is the chapter. https://george-orwell.org/1984/6.html

I mean the section you list ‘reception’ lists some vagueries about how it’s been recieved (positively and negatively) in various countries but it’s certainly not shouting out that it’s unreliable.

Likewise the controversies section below has three relatively minor events over its entire history.

Hardly seems like a smoking gun…

This doesn’t even make sense in the context of (almost always terrible) political compass meme. Who’s even in each quadrant - the person making the statements or those responding?

I feel dumber for reading this.

How?