This is true but I think it's both.

The popular predecessor to Discord was TeamSpeak. It ran on your own servers and that made it hard to set one up. That's why Discord groups are called "servers", they were hijacking established teamspeak terminology their audience would be familiar with.

And reddit died around the same time by extreme over-moderation.

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john_strinlai 4 hours ago | parent [-]

>The popular predecessor to Discord was TeamSpeak.

dont forget about vent and mumble!

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cowlevel 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think they were ever popular. It was always TeamSpeak.

	▲	john_strinlai 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		vent was massively popular. basshunter even has a chart-topping song about it. "Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar DotA" or "We're sitting in Ventrilo, playing DotA" mumble, admittedly, not so much.
	▲	jacobgkau 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		While I disagree, it's beside your point, because Mumble and Ventrilo also used the term "server." All three also required installing a client application, which Discord did not (my recollection is that Discord was the first major WebRTC application, and that made it a killer feature in itself at the time).

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AllegedAlec 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA