• Enfield [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Not that I think it would happen, but I wonder if Discord could theoretically make publicly discoverable servers directly visible and indexable online?

    Discord already has and maintains a web accessed variant of the platform. It’d require some UI for users not logged in and users not registered with a particular publicly visible server, but I’d wager it’s possible. Probably a nightmare to revamp the back-end to make it possible, but possible. It’d kinda feel like how Twitter is indexed and publicly searchable, but platform registration is required to participate, with Discord having the extra layer of server membership on top of a platform account.

    It’d probably do nothing about servers that fall in a sort of visibility limbo, though, like servers that are significantly populated but invisible to Discord’s server discovery. Still, I like to daydream that kind of thing would put a dent on the platform’s information visibility issues 🤔.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      1 year ago

      I’ve seen that a lot of mods are holding power. They want users to migrate to discord because they are mods over there too. Each time I’ve posted one of my communities here I get shadow banned or posts removed. Gets really annoying