Nepal Elects a New Government via Discord

[AWP]

Yes, THAT Discord.

‘More egalitarian’: How Nepal’s Gen Z used gaming app Discord to pick PM

So, they chose Nepal’s next leader in a manner unprecedented for any electoral democracy – through a virtual poll on Discord, a United States-based free messaging platform mainly used by online gamers.

The online huddle was organised by Hami Nepal, a Gen Z group behind the protest with more than 160,000 members.

I don't know what to think about this other than its Nepal and their problem, but it does highlight how old ways of information sharing are dead/ dying. Whatever we think of Discord, we also poo-pooed other social media in their early days. Here's yet another information vector to watch as legacy media dies and yet they STILL don't understand why they are dying.

 

[Florida173]

Yes, THAT Discord.

‘More egalitarian’: How Nepal’s Gen Z used gaming app Discord to pick PM



I don't know what to think about this other than its Nepal and their problem, but it does highlight how old ways of information sharing are dead/ dying. Whatever we think of Discord, we also poo-pooed other social media in their early days. Here's yet another information vector to watch as legacy media dies and yet they STILL don't understand why they are dying.

I wouldn't put too much emphasis in the Discord side. As an app, it fills a niche, but it's getting bogged down by enshittification every day. Won't last much longer

 

[AWP]

I wouldn't put too much emphasis in the Discord side. As an app, it fills a niche, but it's getting bogged down by enshittification every day. Won't last much longer

Too ubiquitous and without a strong contender making inroads. I don't see it going away anytime soon.

 

[Kraut783]

Yes, THAT Discord.

‘More egalitarian’: How Nepal’s Gen Z used gaming app Discord to pick PM



I don't know what to think about this other than its Nepal and their problem, but it does highlight how old ways of information sharing are dead/ dying. Whatever we think of Discord, we also poo-pooed other social media in their early days. Here's yet another information vector to watch as legacy media dies and yet they STILL don't understand why they are dying.

What could go wrong?

 

[Marauder06]

Interesting read, thanks for posting.

The Al Jazeera article had a very "post hoc fallacy" feel for me. "This thing happened, and then sometime later this other thing happened, therefore the first thing caused the second thing."

Two things can be true: the same person who won a Discord poll (which I'm sure was COMPLETELY legit), and then the same person who was popular enough to win a Discord poll also won whatever it took to get appointed to office. The article made it seem like Discord got the person elected, which is a case I don't think we can make yet.

 

[AWP]

Interesting read, thanks for posting.

The Al Jazeera article had a very "post hoc fallacy" feel for me. "This thing happened, and then sometime later this other thing happened, therefore the first thing caused the second thing."

Two things can be true: the same person who won a Discord poll (which I'm sure was COMPLETELY legit), and then the same person who was popular enough to win a Discord poll also won whatever it took to get appointed to office. The article made it seem like Discord got the person elected, which is a case I don't think we can make yet.

The article was one of several which popped up when I first looked at the story.

I'm sure there's more to the story, but pretty wild it would appear at all.