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Re:discordo: Lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord t... by gaius_baltar on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:05PM (#32477445)
Do anybody checked if the European DMA (Digital Markets Act) will be able to force Discord to open their platform for third-parties? Whether or not it constitutes a "gatekeeper" (in the DMA parlance) is a bit confusing for me...
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Re:discordo: Lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord t... by tnzk on Monday August 15, 2022 @09:33PM (#32478228)
IANAL though, according to the figures they don't appear to be the subject.

Definition of gatekeepers in DMA:

> A size that impacts the internal market: ... equal to or above €7.5 billion in in each of the last three financial years, ... The control of an important gateway for business users towards final consumers: ... more than 45 million monthly active end users ... and more than 10,000 yearly active business users ...

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_...

Discord's performance:

> Discord generated $130 million revenue in 2020, ... Discord has over 140 million active monthly users...

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/discord-statistics/

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Re:discordo: Lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord t... by 3np on Monday August 15, 2022 @09:52PM (#32478346)
> "10,000 yearly active business users"

Without a definition - which I have not located - this is ambiguous - does anybody know what they use here to determine if a user is a "business user" or not?

If the definition is "account represents and is owned by a business rather than an physical person and is used in the course of business" I'm pretty sure Discord would come out above that?

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Re:discordo: Lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord t... by techdragon on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @04:32AM (#32480538)
As someone following the “discord for business” matter in multiple support channels… I don’t think they have any business customers. They have end users and individual customers. So it would have to be the 45 million users.
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