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by dartos
605 days ago
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> It's not the web in the strict sense It kind of is though. Maybe not with discord specifically, because it’s a closed platform. but communities on open ones like matrix are just as much part of the web as any forum. It’s not a big platform with all users in one space. There are dedicated communities with passionate people talking, sharing ideas, helping each other out. Would you’ve considered IRC chat rooms on freenode part of the web? |
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For IRC, absolutely not. IRC (1988) even predates the web (1989). Freenode offered a web-based gateway that ran on their servers, that doesn't make IRC a web protocol.
As for the rest it's slightly fuzzier since in practice they rely on HTTP, but you can't just use a normal web browser to interface with them. You have to run a specialized client that understands the protocol to interact with them. The practicality of the firstparty clients for these platforms/protocols (or in Discord's case the only one you're officially allowed to use) being shipped in a web browser doesn't make the systems "part of the web". The server doesn't give you HTML that you can see in any browser, you make API requests for JSON in a non-W3C-standardized format and interpret it with specialized software. You can't send someone a URL to a message and have them be able to open it in any web browser without additional software.