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1. mray@social.tchncs.de's status on Sunday, 30-Jan-2022 18:30:22 UTC mray

   Can somebody explain to me why discord calls its chatrooms "SERVERS" – and people "run their servers" there? Users don't own or run anything especially on that proprietary service, so… 🤔 ⁉️

   #cognitivedissonance #discord #matrix

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   • lars (ls@social.lsnet.eu)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jan-2022 18:30:17 UTC lars

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     @mray A mixture of clever marketing and adaptation to gamer jargon. So everyone can feel like a server operator even without a clue.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jan-2022 18:33:30 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @mray Fake federation. From what I hear the most concrete reason is because they wanted to attract gaming guilds over from TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and Mumble, which people actually self-hosted on servers, so they carried over the terminology.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jan-2022 18:36:18 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Râu Cao ⚡
     @raucao @mray Objective accomplished.
   • Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jan-2022 18:36:19 UTC Râu Cao ⚡

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke @mray For a long time, I actually thought you could self-host the thing, because what else would a server be.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jan-2022 18:39:54 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @mray Conceptually, running a Discord "server" is not very different from, say, running a hosted Mastodon instance on one of the hosted services available. You get a space where you're an admin and can appoint moderators and manage the community. The difference is that it's not necessarily literally a VM and that there is no other way for you to run it than the hosted solution.