Because network effect. You either use Discord or nobody comes.

> You either use Discord or nobody comes.

WAT? Not even close to true. A lot of people gravitate to other discussion forums. Some even dislike chat-style "communities" that they steer clear. (Someone can find market research if we want to pin it down more.)

My summary (exaggerated for effect): Discord is a time waster. Slack is Stockholm Syndrome. GitHub Issues is comfortable. Zulip is lesser-known but great and FOSS.

So many of these products have redefined our frame of mind for how we interact, for better or (let's be frank) worse.

	▲	MaxBarraclough 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Also, interaction with a Free and Open Source project ideally shouldn't require use of proprietary software. Some examples of major open source projects that don't insist on Discord: * KDE offers its own forums, mailing lists, IRC, Matrix, and, yes, Discord. [0] * Gnome offers its own forums, and Matrix. [1] Its old mailing lists are archived but now closed. * Postgres has mailing lists and IRC [2] * The Linux kernel has mailing lists [3] [0] https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Many_Ways_To_Reach_Us [1] https://welcome.gnome.org/ [2] https://www.postgresql.org/community/ [3] https://lkml.org/