With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

  • iegod@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Why do we need federation though? I like my discord ‘servers’ being disjointed.

    • Skavau@piefed.social
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      1 hour ago

      Same reason the Fediverse does. Because a would-be piece of software can’t scale without it. If each instance is entirely disconnected, then you can’t interchange between different communities on them without new accounts. This depresses growth.