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Discord's main "ease of use" features: Centralized user management, centralized server discovery, server hosting

What it does technically could be replicated by current technologies.

Emojis, video streaming, screen streaming.

Discoverability by the masses is a tough problem to solve because there is really no way to monetize it. Does Discord just rely on Nitro subscriptions?



> Discoverability by the masses is a tough problem to solve because there is really no way to monetize it. Does Discord just rely on Nitro subscriptions?

It's a gold mine of data for things like market research, ad targeting/fingerprinting, and more recently AI training.




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