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if you pay for nitro you can change your identity per server



Without nitro you can still nickname yourself.


People will still see the "server you're both in" and the game your currently playing, etc. Not good for work servers.


Wait. "Work servers"?

People use Discord for work chat?


Yeah, the company I work for actually has a public Discord server for providing support (and hosting our "community" - with some exclusions due to privacy concerns).

Because of that all of our internal staff discussions takes place in Discord, in channels that can only be seen by the "Staff" role (though modded Discord clients can show these channels' names - because channel listing, both voice and text based, seems to have been relegated to client-side so the server just sends ALL channel names, but not the actual contents unless you have the role since that is checked server-side).

While we do have a system that management based staff are invited to (I won't name it because NDA, but it's incredibly easy to guess), but it is only used in case there's a *massive* Discord outage and the staff end up in an extended communications "blackout" because of the outage - however it has _never_ actually been used, at least in the time I've been part of it.


Yes, most of my work conversations happen on discord servers. Discord provides a better chat service than slack, so I don't see how it would be unusual for people to use Discord over slack.


Use web only discord and aggressively disable permissions. This results in less tracking and spying on you


Although you can disable automatically setting your status to whichever game you are playing though.


You can disable it globally, for all servers, yes


Wouldn't you use your work account? A separate account just for work?


Because I fear a ban, honestly.


Sure, if the server admin lets you




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