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Discord’s Hints About Crypto, NFTs Are Tearing Its Community Apart
The CEO of Discord recently teased that the world’s largest gaming chat platform could potentially support cryptocurrency wallets. This has led many users to be nervous that their Nitro (a paid Discord service) subscriptions could be used to fund the scammy NFT ecosystem in the future. The teaser tweet caused massive opposition among Discord users,…
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Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord
A few days ago Eurogamer closed their forums, bringing to an end over 20 years of community discussion. The site explained the move like sites and companies always do, and it made sense the way it always does, but that doesn’t mean the process itself isn’t something that sucks.
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Twitch Sues ‘Hate Raid’ Organisers
Twitch is taking a big stand against the organised harassment campaigns, widely known as “hate raids,” that have proliferated over the past few months by filing a suit against two possible coordinators of the attacks.
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Discord Buys AI Company To Combat A Big Problem: Harassment
It wasn’t all that long ago that Discord housed some of the internet’s most noxious groups, including white supremacist communities like The Daily Stormer. Since the Charlottesville rally in 2017, however, the chat platform has worked toward slowly but surely cleaning up the mess. But as Discord has grown, so too has the risk of…