Nepal Currently Being Run Via Discord After Gen Z Uprising
gizmodo.com
They went from banning social media to being run by it.

The next time someone tells you the youth aren’t engaged enough in politics, just point them to Nepal.

According to multiple reports, the youth of the South Asian nation managed to oust the existing government following an attempted ban of major social media platforms and took to Discord to hold an impromptu convention to elect an interim prime minister.

The organizing appears to have worked. On Friday, the military accepted the recommendation of the protest group and named Karki the interim prime minister. Karki, who accepted the role, is expected to pick a new cabinet and eventually hold elections. According to the Times, that is expected to happen within the next six months or so.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
      265·
      20 hours ago

      Except Discord. That’s just stupid. At least use something E2EE.

      • Lena@gregtech.euEnglish
        10·
        12 hours ago

        Why would you use E2EE for a group with over 100000 members?

        I also kinda doubt stuff like matrix could handle that many users. All-in-all, and I say this as not the biggest fan of discord, I think it was an okay choice.

      • Havald@lemmy.worldEnglish
        40·
        19 hours ago

        The title is extremely misleading. No one is running a country via discord. The your rebelled successfully and after ousting the former pm they were asked by the military for a new pm rexommendation. They had discussions about that on discord and gave their recommendation afterwards. That’s all there is to it, no one is holding cabinet meetings via discord. The interim pm probably doesn’t even know what discord is.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
        111·
        16 hours ago

        That’s what I was thinking.

        Like thankfully whatever they’re up to isn’t too interesting to Discord corporate or “U.S interests” right now, or their communications would be turned on them so fast.

        But hey at least it’s like a small step up from Facebook. Somebody help them set up their own Matrix protocol infrastructure. :D

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        19 hours ago

        I dunno how many users signal can handle in a single chat, but I suspect it’s far less than the number they would have in their discord chats.

        They’re lucky they live in a country where the government is technologically illiterate. If they did that in the developed world they’d probably all be dead or in prison, instead of successfully, and relatively peacefully (from what I gather), overthrowing their kleptocrats.

        Edit: their chat has 100,000 users