Ugh. Discord makes api-fee-reddit look positively wall-free by comparison.

Because they respect your privacy and don't feel the need to plaster your comment in every search engine?

Requiring my phone number does not respect my privacy. Reddit users can create as many identities as they wish.

oh wow are we now in the "finding information is bad actually" phase of the internet?

Mastodon believes this and willfully denies search functionality. Tech built to search Mastodon (https://fedsearch.io/) was aggressively decried as violating privacy and such.

So yes, there is certainly at least a vocal subset of people who believe that "finding information is bad actually" and deliberately building tech along those lines.

Can’t stand discord, it’s too noisy. Joined one server from a subreddit and the mod team @everyones all. The. Time.

It's insane because Discord has the usage stats to see that the first thing a majority of users do when joining a new server is to force mute group @ notifications.

I honestly wonder why this is even a feature they support, but it should absolutely be defaulted to mute and/or have a checkbox for it in the new server join banner. They force collect phone numbers while highlighting the fact that they will spam the ever-loving fuck out of your notifications.