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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Discord didn't, and still doesn't, require a download. Easier for people to pick up and easier to use on locked down computers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This. Whatever can be used on devices without admin rights, such as work or school devices, for "free", will get picked up by normie worker drones and college students and minors in droves.

It's been pretty handy in a lot of ways, but yeah I do hate what it's doing to indexable information and it's only a matter of time before it goes for IPO and suddenly gets way worse seemingly overnight...