and they are almost more powerful than email. Look how widely Discord is used, compared to email. Email might have more sites, but outside of corporate reminders, more communication happens on Discord.
A quick google seems to suggest around 350 BILLION emails are sent PER DAY. The statistics I could find show discord has between 0.8 and 4B messages/day, and those will be far shorter in content than an email. It’s two orders of magnitude behind.
Yes a good amount are spam, marketing, scams, etc. But that just comes with the fact that the platform is free and open.
Very strange to me to make such a barrier with corp communication. That’s communication too, and most of these corps now have things like Slack aka Discord anyway.
Meanwhile, if you can't use discord, then You're locked out of all of discord forever. And discord is like the 10th Gen of "hot new chat apps", what do we do when it starts to die (because Discord will probably start dieing in the next 10 years)? Just lose everything in all those discord groups, like we lost ICQ and MSN messenger and AIM and Skype?
And if Discord decides to ban you due to some kind of automatic flagging, you're suddenly unable to communicate with everyone who insists on using it as their sole means of communication.
It's drastically different from Gmail. If Gmail bans you, you can go and get a different email address (and if you're not naive, you already have your own domain name for email even if you use Google for it). And you would be able to send messages from that different address, even to Gmail users; and they would be able to send messages to you.
