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Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media and files. Communication can be private or take place in virtual communities called "servers".
Discord is a freemium and proprietary chat room program available for web browsers, Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Editors can chat by text like WP:IRC , but also by voice calls, unlike IRC. In 2016, an unofficial Wikimedia Discord server was founded.
The Apple of Discord (Ancient Greek: μῆλον τῆς Ἔριδος) was a golden apple dropped by Eris, the goddess of strife, at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis in the Greek myth of the Judgement of Paris.
In a review of criminal complaints, articles and law enforcement communications, NBC News found 35 child abductions involving Discord from the past 6 years.
Discord's head of trust and safety said that the popular chat app was changing and clarifying its policies around grooming, teen dating and child sexualization.
Most parents whose children are on tech platforms such as Snapchat and Discord aren’t using parenting tools the companies designed for them, despite rising concerns around online child safety.
On April 1, 2024, the communications app Discord incorporated a short trailer video into their in-app April Fools' Day prank regarding loot boxes. The video automatically looped for anyone with Discord open, even if the notification had not been opened yet.
The phrase Principia Discordia, reminiscent of Isaac Newton 's 1687 Principia Mathematica, is presumably intended to mean Discordant Principles, or Principles of Discordance . The Principia describes the Discordian Society and its Goddess Eris, as well as the basics of the POEE denomination of Discordianism.