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Some servers are relatively generic, covering multiple games and often other types of popular culture. It has widened its appeal, but you will still find many Discord servers for gamers. Discord has been dealing with violent extremism on its site for years, and became more serious about its efforts after organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia used Discord.Chat platform Discord was initially launched as a social platform for gamers. It says it removed 19,744,476 accounts for spamming during the first half of 2021 alone.Ī devastating reminder of the negative potency of social media occurred over the weekend, when the shooter in the racially-motivated massacre in Buffalo, New York, was found to have used a Discord community focused on guns and armor as one of his online planning methods (the company said it is working with law enforcement), and other logs of advance attack planning surfaced on the platform.

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The company says it is investing heavily to combat this problem, acquiring Sentropy, an AI-based software company focused on fighting abuse and harassment online, last July. Harassment reports (32%) are by far the largest share of incidents on the platform, followed by spam (13%). Its mid-year 2021 transparency report counted 437,190 reports, an increase of over 80,000 from the previous six months. In January 2020, pre-pandemic, that number was slightly over 25,000. With its success among a younger demographic, Discord has faced safety concerns. In September, investors doubled down on their Discord bet, with a $500 million round raising its valuation from $7.3 billion to nearly $15 billion. Web3 has lots of good but also lots of problems we need to work through at our scale.

… For now we're focused on protecting users from spam, scams and fraud. 'Thanks for all the perspectives everyone. A tweet from co-founder and CEO Jason Citron late last year in response to speculation the company could be getting ready for its own crypto, NFT and metaverse efforts didn't rule it out. With gamers viewed as the niche most ready to enter the metaverse, Discord's battle with Facebook may take to the Web3 world next. Discord also made a gaming acquisition last June, Ubiquity6, a multiplayer gaming and tech company. Last May, Discord teamed up with Sony to enable PlayStation players worldwide to connect to the platform, and as of January, users can link their PlayStation Network account and display their activity in their profiles. Growth in gaming does remain a core focus. The company, unlike the first generation social media giants, does not make money from advertisements. And late last year the company began testing a premium membership feature, allowing creators and community owners to require a subscription to access all or part of their server, tiered perks, and view analytics on member engagement. In July, it released Threads, a way to branch a conversation off of a channel's main feed without removing it from the channel. In March, Discord released Stage channels, giving users a new way to organize and host large audio events. Last year was a busy one for the company, as it invested and launched new features to capitalize on the boom in social audio. And it boasts a demographic that is valuable, with 68% brand awareness among 18 to 24-year-olds. And while it started as a platform favored by gamers who were tired of complaining about Skype, it has grown beyond those roots, with 78% of its users now saying they use Discord mainly for non-gaming, or equally across gaming and other activities. The voice, video and text communication service which competes with multiple generations of media tech disruptors from Facebook to Reddit and Skype (parent Microsoft was a suitor of the company before abandoning a bid last year), now counts more than 150 million monthly active users, with 79% coming from outside the U.S.

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