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ravenstineyesterday at 2:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

Haven't cared about Discord in a long time. In fact I'm glad they're continuing to shoot themselves in the foot.

During the pandemic, I was on a Discord server for folks to socialize and blow off steam about the whole situation. Yes, there were some anti-vaxx wackos, but overall the place was civil and balanced, and I met some interesting people through it. We cracked jokes and it was a little bit of fun in a tough time.

One day I came to discover that Discord had banned the server for allegedly violating... something. I wish I had written down everyone's emails because I permanently lost contact with a bunch of friends in an instant.

I never signed in to Discord again, in spite of times where some other social group wanted to use it. I vowed never to use Discord again. Fuck those guys and the Teslas they rode in on. I hope this ID verification thing is another big step towards their irrelevancy.


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gjsman-1000yesterday at 2:55 PM

Discord has 150 million monthly active users.

They’ll be fine. To them, this is just another internet boycott, with all that entails. Reddit survived a worse one and grew afterward.

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alex1138yesterday at 6:42 PM

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