By Nishit Singh Raghuwanshi
Copyright timesnownews
The unrest in Nepal is not hidden from anyone as of now. What started as a protest against the corruption done by the government has become a full-blown protest fueled by government’s decision to ban 26 social media apps in the country. This whole scenario has resulted in demolition of the country’s government. Now, the rumours have it that the Gen Z of the said nation is using Discord to vote for the New Prime Minister of the country. For those who don’t know, Discord is just another social media platform that is popular amongst gamers, but it works in a pretty different way as compared to any other social media platform. Moving forward, let’s take a deep dive to know what actually Discord is and how it works. What Is Discord? Discord is a platform that was developed in 2015 as a medium for gamers to chat without affecting their game. The minds behind Discord were Stainislav Vishnevskiy and Jason Citron. The platform lets users communicate with their network without exiting the game. In a span of a year, Discord clocked more than 25 million users globally. Coming to the popularity aspect, Discord gained a lot of attention during the Pandemic, especially amongst the Gen Z crowd. Apart from using the app while gaming, the masses started using it for basic communication by creating different servers on topics of their interests. How To use Discord? Understanding how to use Discord is more or less getting familiar with how Discord servers work. First, we will let you know the steps to get started, followed by a brief explanation of Discord servers. -Open the Google Play Store or Apple App Store on your smartphone and then search for Discord. -Now download the app and then create your account on the platform as soon as it open. -After that, you will be supposed to create and join servers to share or receive information related to the topic of your interest. Coming to the main point, a Discord server is a large community of people where one can create multiple channels for seamless communication. These channels could be used to share videos, texts, and images without any hassle. A couple of things that you should know is that a user limit of a single server is not more than half a million, and out of which, only 2,50,000 users can be active on a server at a particular point in time. Get Latest News live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from Technology Science and around the world.
