Shouldn't Discord be more under the limelight for the recent mass-shootings than 4chan?
Discord hosts hate content, but they don't publish it in the way other social media does. You have to seek out and join these communities.
I strongly disagree with this. Although there is some minor overlap between the different boards or *chan sites, the community is hardly uniform. There's a huge difference between the likes of /pol/ and /lgbt/ or /o/ and /b/
Isn't this the same Discord whose own trust and safety team leadership were sharing "cub content"[1] on private servers?
[1]: Cub content is the furry version of CP, for the uninitiated.
Also this kind of imagery leads directly to animal sexual abuse, which is a huge but little-talked-about problem.
It's despicable and has no place in our society.
However, what you described does not seem to be a “furry version of child porn”.
You may want to engage with that idea, but as for me, fuck no, fucking never and fuck anyone who stands for it.
People use Discord to run everything from their business to their e-sports team. Like criticising email it’s just a tool not a particular community.
Nobody reads all of 4chan. It's not a monoculture. People read one or two boards and that's it.
The cultures of say, /k/ or /m/, are entirely unique to themselves and unlike any other board on 4chan.
Reddit is probably a closer comparison, or maybe Facebook, with the difference that Discord requires an app and login and is not really "web". It's complicated.
Sure, nobody is running their workplace chat on those, but it doesn't negate that Discord is sort of a Reddit-like aggregate of communities for many people.
I think you're misattributing the medium to the.. dunno, zeitgeist? of communications.
As the servers/communities are so closed off (relatively, compared to other things) I don't think the comparison to reddit stands. I'm on several gaming discords and even they're varying so much, the only overlap is general memes. I've not stumbled over any sort of discord-'in'-language. On reddit you have upvotes or copypastas or cake days or whatever, but as others have said, Discord is more like email - not even like IRC with some of its oddities.
I was just trying to take the author's thought process in the logical direction that it should have gone. Except I'm sure Discord's investors would be extremely unhappy with WIRED if they were to do so...whereas 4chan's investors are Japanese and outside of the SV bubble...so I guess fuck 'em?
There's also accusations that the Buffalo and Austin shooters were both members of the same discord server.
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/6th-street-mass-shooting...
/s.... I hope
The most important question Americans should be asking is why the USA is the only country in the G8 where this is normal.
This doesn't happen regularly elsewhere. It's not Discord. It's not 4Chan. It's not any other social network.
It's the USA. It's the culture of America.
For your information, school attacks aren't exclusive to America, and can be quite a regular occurrence elsewhere, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China
> An attacker named Wu Huanming (吴环明), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten in Hanzhong, Shaanxi on May 12, 2010;[8] early reports were removed from the internet in China, for fear that mass coverage of such violence could provoke copycat attacks.
That's just an example, there are many more listed.
The USA has had at least 22 this year.
It's not comparable. It's not equivocal. It's not worth even considering if there's similarities.
The USA is broken, it's broken unlike anywhere else, and it's a cultural problem.
Yeah, probably because they've taken sensible steps to control the media coverage around these kinds of crimes to prevent copycats. Also the wide and deep social media monitoring is probably quite helpful in preventing socially destructive communities like 4chan from forming and getting out of control. China has always had really strict gun control. If we really want to put a stop to these kinds of attacks, we really need to go all in to destroy the social contagion that's the root cause.
So compare America to other the liberal democracies in the G8. It will remain an aberration and horrific outlier.
Maybe. I was more thinking along the lines that they don't blast the idea that attacking a school is something you can do into everyone's faces. It's not very good situation that every susceptible person in America is very familiar with the idea that attacking a school is an option they have.
Media safety is another thing we need to be talking about, so all effective actions can be taken to deal with this problem. This wall-to-wall publicity will likely cause more gruesome deaths, and probably already has.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mass-shootings-ar...:
> The investigators applied a mathematical model and found that shootings that resulted in at least four deaths launched a period of contagion, marked by a heightened likelihood of more bloodshed, lasting an average of 13 days.