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Discord thinks that it is important. Good news that it isn't. And even if there is no good substitute, then it is possible to abandon Discord by just quitting and not looking for any alternatives. Like if your local market stopped having aubergines then you can just stop even wanting them. Not a big deal.
it is really not. not without significantly crippling your life.
luckily, there are alternatives, so we will just see if people are willing to put money where their mouth is.
it's insane to me that people have been so hoodwinked by these shitty predatory vulture corporations that they actually believe they just can't live without these 100% unnecessary products they're willfully roping themselves into.
it's not just discord. people are still on fucking twitter ffs. if the premise is "i need [insert social media]," then the only, the final, the indisputable, response is always going to be "no. you fucking don't"
Well Discord has become more than just Vent server alternative, people use it for more than just game chat. There’s a lot of local communities that have discord servers and use them to organize events and chat, and so you end up knowing a bunch of people through discord. Alternatives can be difficult in that circumstance. Like sure you can get their phone numbers or whatever if you know them well enough, maybe start a group text, but it doesn’t necessarily equate. If you run a server I can see it being wildly difficult to move a whole community off of Discord and getting people to use an alternative platform. Personally I’m all for moving to Matrix if I can convince my D&D group, but those local communities, the only option is to basically to drop out of them and lose connections.
The more reason to abandon them, IMO, when they try to hold those communities hostage. Discord needs us, not the other way around. Without them, we find other ways to talk to our people. Without us, they don't have a business.
That’s true. And the reason is most people - still, in 2026 - can’t figure out how computers work. Not that they try to. It’s a low-level social madness that causes catastrophic global changes.