Discord has drawn increased attention in recent weeks after reports that the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing used the platform.
  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    2 days ago

    No, they’re using the internet in general. Discord is just a platform that they can talk on and it’s fairly easy to use. It’s not like Discord advertises these servers and gets people to join them. What’s really happening is that these people are either seeking out these servers or are being sent invites from people already inside.

    My point is that Discord is not the issue. If they crack down on Discord they will just find somewhere else to go. You’d have to control the entire internet in a similar way to Russia or China in order to actually stop it this way. It’s a societal issue that they are trying to solve by censorship instead of actually fixing the underlying issues that push people to extremism. I’m sure the majority of these issues would be solved by a system that actually prioritized mental health and getting people the help they need instead of one that pushes these people out of society because they are “insane.”

    • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      There certainly can’t be any data to back this up… Now way making access to mental healthcare reduces fringe groups and gives them more constructive ways to deal with their emotional state. /s

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
    26·
    2 days ago

    Are the authors of this new to the internet?

    This warning is like 15 years too late.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    This is very much a misunderstanding of the mechanism. The youth are using discord because its convenient, easy to set up, and all of their friends are on there. It also has the structural issue of being an opaque echo chamber, which allows communities to become more ideological as they arent subject to outsider criticism. If it wasn’t discord, it would be Telegram, or Reddit or whatever.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      At least Reddit is structured to be public and searchable (or at least it used to be).

      Discord is annoying for a bazillion reasons, but a big one is it’s ostensibly a ‘close friends gamer chat’ platform, yet its taken the role of project support chat, niche topic forums, ‘influencer’ chat rooms, and things that should absolutely be public facing.

      …Another, I guess, is political discourse.

      In other words, Discord the company is having their cake and eating it; pretending they’re an innocent ‘between friends’ private chat platform while absolutely structuring it to encourage scams, mega communities with notification spam, patreon-like benefit tiers, and weird stuff that absolutely seeds recruitment for, and engagement on, extremist channels.

  • Triumph@fedia.io
    21·
    2 days ago

    I’m being radicalized by a fascist government. But I’m not a “youth”.