![]() ![]() Jimi Tele, the CEO of Chekmate, a “text-free” dating app that connects users through voice and video, says he wanted to launch an app that would be “catfish-proof,” referring to the practice of deceiving others online with fake profiles. ![]() The intimacy of voice makes audio social media that much more appealing in the age of social distancing and isolation. ![]() Isn’t it cool to talk and literally be heard? After all, that’s the foundational promise of social media: democratization of voice. In both Discord and Clubhouse, the in-group culture-nerdy gamers in Discord’s case, overconfident venture capitalists for Clubhouse-have led to instances of groupthink that can be off-putting at best and bigoted at worst. The marketing push seems to have worked: by October, Discord estimated 6.7 million users-up from 1.4 million in February, just before the pandemic hit.īut while Discord’s communities, or “servers,” can be as small and innocent as kids organizing remote sleepovers, they have also included far-right extremists who used the service to organize the Charlottesville white supremacist rally and the recent insurrection at the US Capitol. In June, to tap into people’s need for connection during the pandemic, Discord announced a new slogan- “Your place to talk”-and began trying to make the service appear less gamer-centric. The service uses voice-over-IP software to translate spoken chat into text (an idea that came from video gamers who found typing while playing impossible). Gaming chat app Discord, meanwhile, has exploded in popularity. ![]()
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