Comment by Aachen
6 months ago
A server, to me, you have control over if that's the product name of what you rent. Discord servers are as much yours as Hacker News is yours
It's like pretending a taxi is the same as owning a vehicle, even if the taxi company was your neighbor and there's always someone available. The result is the same but the distinction couldn't be clearer. To me it's similarly misrepresentative to say you own a car when you live next to a big taxi station, as to say the SaaS web front-end you get on Discord is a rented server
That definition sounds a lot like it would exclude services renting Mumble servers. It's difficult to reconcile this with your previous comment.