[pwdisswordfishy]

Doesn't Discord require every user to create a new account, even if they're already using Discord in some other community? So when they say "a Discord server", they really mean it--they're like droplets running independent deployments or whatever (albeit managed/hosted instances run by and upgraded by Discord the company); not like subreddits, right?

So isn't the best way to migrate people to XMPP to prop up a Discord clone that's as close a copy as the Discord-clone community can manage, and then tell all the people "Join my Discord server", with the trick being that it's really your server, not Discord's, and that server is powered by XMPP?

[MarsIronPI]

> Doesn't Discord require every user to create a new account, even if they're already using Discord in some other community? So when they say "a Discord server", they really mean it--they're like droplets running independent deployments or whatever (albeit managed/hosted instances run by and upgraded by Discord the company); not like subreddits, right?

No, it works exactly like subreddits. One of the major lock-ins Discord has is that all the communities are there, and people access them all with one account and one app. It's very convenient, which, as RMS says, is a bad thing when it comes to proprietary software.

[ycombinatrix]

>Doesn't Discord require every user to create a new account, even if they're already using Discord in some other community?

No, the same account is used. You get prompted to choose a nickname each time you join a server though.

>So when they say "a Discord server", they really mean it--they're like droplets running independent deployments or whatever

No, they're probably all run on the same compute. The "official" name for a discord server from the API documentation is actually a "discord guild" and it works pretty much like a subreddit.