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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by viccis on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:02PM (#43283900)
Its killer feature was how frictionless it was to adopt initially. If I sent you a Discord link, back then you could just click it and be going in under a minute.

Same reason Zoom quickly took over video chat. It was so easy to use that you didn't have to convince your friends to sign up for it, you just sent them a link and it just worked.

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by johnisgood on Friday March 07, 2025 @12:10PM (#43291927)
You did have to sign up and login, right? I believe this is one of the major things that make it much less frictionless for people.
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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by viccis on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:03PM (#43293150)
If I recall correctly, yes, but it was like, enter your email and username BAM now you have an account.

It's not quite so easy anymore, partly because when you reach a certain size, it's all about controlling bots and whatnot.

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by johnisgood on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:24PM (#43293437)
Agreed. You now have to verify your phone number to have access to many guilds.
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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by pydave on Sunday March 09, 2025 @11:17PM (#43316686)
Yeah, didn't even verify emails. I got a surprise discord account back in 2015 because someone else used my email. I guess this xkcd[1] applies to younger people too.

1: https://xkcd.com/1279/

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by einsteinx2 on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:44PM (#43323126)
I’ll never cease to be amazed that there’s an XKCD for literally everything.

I bet there’s even one related to using the word literally as hyperbole…

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