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Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year
(www.nbcnews.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2025
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At least Reddit is structured to be public and searchable (or at least it used to be).
Discord is annoying for a bazillion reasons, but a big one is it's ostensibly a 'close friends gamer chat' platform, yet its taken the role of project support chat, niche topic forums, 'influencer' chat rooms, and things that should absolutely be public facing.
...Another, I guess, is political discourse.
In other words, Discord the company is having their cake and eating it; pretending they're an innocent 'between friends' private chat platform while absolutely structuring it to encourage scams, mega communities with notification spam, patreon-like benefit tiers, and weird stuff that absolutely seeds recruitment for, and engagement on, extremist channels.