Is Discord a botnet?
I've seen a few Teamspeak servers switching to it, and I can't find the catch.
Yet.
>100% free
>implying there isn't a catch
https://discordapp.com/
>>51767235
Neither discord nor teamspeak are free.
>>>/v/
The catch will probably be regular advertisement intervals once traffic grows enough.
>>51767235
they're going to analyze and sell your data, just like skype and every other "free" messaging service
What the fuck do you think, retard? Centralized servers, no privacy policy, all logs are saved. It's botnet as fuck, web 2.0 as gay, shit as nigger. Use Mumble.
>>51767275
That's not really botnet though.
As a tool to communicate when playing videogames together, it's bretty good.
>>51767275
"Fuck mumble that shit is so lame" is something I have heard said multiple times since discord started being spread around. Fuck discord though, I wont use anything but mumble.
Jesus christ guys it says right on the fucking website they're going to sell premium themes
Everyone around me uses TS3.
It seems to work, we host a server out of our basement
>trusting Web 3.0
>>51767292
how is your personal data being stored and sold not botnet, you're really foolish if you think it's not being stored and analyzed for the express purpose of advertising to you in the future.
>>51767304
Discord is literally better than ANY other voice coms.
Botnet or not.
>>51767317
I am not giving my personal data to them.
I am also not seeing anywhere.
>>51767301
That's how they're going to make money, mark my words.
League of Legends themes! Minecraft Themes! WoW Themes! Also individual themes for stupid shit like every other LoL champ so you can ogle your waifu while talking to a neckbeard
Gamers love being nickled and dimed desu senpai
>>51767235
There is no catch. Its just a lighter, actually working peer-to-peer program. They've already said they're not going to sell your data.
>>51767317
you sign up using a username though
if they're selling any info it's going to be very vague demographic type stuff, "gamers are using our product to discuss etc look they make tons of hashtags and rooms discussing it, let's contact them and make themes"
>>51767317
i don't think you know what botnet means
it's proprietary bull shit, should be more than enough to throw it to the bin.
>>51767374
you hear that goys? they said they wouldn't do that! download it now!
>>51767390
It fits the /g/ definition, which has morphed into advertising and data harvesting, e.g. Google ads based on search and browsing history, Facebook,
>>51767317
>how is your personal data being stored and sold not botnet,
Dude could you please check out the definition of "botnet"?
>>51767406
just say spyware
>>51767416
but i have to fit in with the cool meme kids on /g/
>>51767401
Even if they do, NONE of the other mediums can even touch Discord. It has a working UI, it isn't fucking UGLY to look at, and does more than Mumble, Skype, and TS3 can combined.
He's quite a trickster but I don't think that makes him a "botnet"
>>51767424
Skype really isn't even in the equation, desu fampai
>>51767448
People use it. Even with being compared to Mumble and Skype, it still comes out on top.
>>51767406
>It fits the /g/ definition
>d-d-dooo i fit in y-yet?
Jesus christ, get some balls.
27 replies, 13 posters. Some faggot or faggots is in here shilling for this shit program pretty hard right now.
>>51767483
i'm making fun of him desu fampai, grow some comprehension skills
>>51767501
discussion is a thing that happens in which multiple people may or may not make multiple posts in reply to one another
>>51767501
yeah no shit, they stopped for a bit, but they may be back.
>>51767521
>>51767501
serious question m8 what kind of ratio to users/posts gives an impression of non-shill/samefag
unrelated to the topic entirely but this seems like very flawed logic from people looking at info and drawing conclusions they want to see from nothing
>>51767549
>very flawed logic from people looking at info and drawing conclusions they want to see from nothing
Congratulations, You just described 4chan!
Gold Star.
>>51767521
Its not really a discussion. No one has made any negative comments on it other than "muh, muh, muh botnet."
>>51767235
Snapchat is free.
ML is the future of computing. Right now AI and ML powerhouses are those that own the most data.
If discord is a bottleneck for communication then they'll have the upper hand in selling that information.
>>51767511
>>51767563
so which is it?
maybe you need us to be confused, to sell us this app
lots of replies look like something straight out copy pasted from their website. including but not limited to these.
>>51767458
>>51767424
>>51767374
>>51767347
>>51767301
i'm just pointing this out, not trying to sell you a competitor to discord, enough anons know the virtue of libre and if they want to sell themselves one way or another, for the new fancy thing, they are free to do so.
>>51767235
> only app store and google play
> no windows phone
Dropped
>>51767424
The only thing mumble lacks that discord may or may not even have is video chat.
>>51767656
Its meant for gaming, it really doesn't need it.
And its got a much, much higher quality on voice.
>>51767653
poor soul
>>51767670
You know mumble voice quality is a server option right, and that the default for it is like 40Kbps?
>>51767653
Project Astoria will fix this, right!?!?
If i'm playing videogames in the first place why should i use FOSS software
>>51767682
And discord is 48kps default. Meanwhile TS3 is like, what, 7? 8?
And plus the chat window is far better.
>>51767708
>using a voice tool to chat
>>51767708
I have irc for text chat, I like mumble because I can host a server myself.
>>51767735
>everyone can talk all of the time
>>51767708
Last I checked it was measured in kiloBYTES on TS3. Multiple that 6 or 7 by 8 for kilobits.
>>51767782
Then how does TS3 manage to sound like garbage if it supposedly has the same speed?
https://discord.gg/0gxOY0Ew6Ondyo2S
lets talk about how garbage it is
>>51767819
top kek
>>51767807
Because your server admins aren't using Opus Voice or any of the actual functional codecs, or have the voice quality put at 4-5 kilobytes/second?
>>51767807
I use both pretty frequently. No noticeable difference in quality. Honestly I think TS3 sounds better sometimes.
lol everybodys too autistic to unmute their mics
I am genuinely curious to see if they made their own VOIP or if this is them hosting murmur servers and slapping a pretty web skin over it.
>>51767852
We don't have a TS3 anymore, we thankfully bailed it, so I couldn't tell you.
Discord has shitty fucking pings for EU tho.
Even skype is better,ffs.
>>51767930
You have your own discord hub servers, they have NAE, NAW, EU and a few others.
The catch is: Discord is malware.
