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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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I think Discord actually is destroying meaning of "server" for many people. It should be called "communities" or "guilds". Server is not an abstract division between communities, but an actual machine serving and processing data, so you really can't create a Discord server unless you reverse engineer their code.
i know discord servers are run on your own servers but us using the term would both be accurate and be understandable by the average person.
No, calling Discord groups/communities/guilds "servers" is not accurate and is totally wrong. You cannot create your own Discord server and Discord would never let you.
It's like calling Facebook a website hosting, because you can create a "site" on it.
I haven't been on FB for several years, but ugh there was a while in the late 2010s when so many people over there were referring to FB groups as sites and just arghh arrghh aaarrgghhh.