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Maybe because they don't want to worry about life things happening and you dropping it for a while? Most people don't have the knowledge, capability, and/or wil
by CDSlice 8y ago
Maybe because they don't want to worry about life things happening and you dropping it for a while? Most people don't have the knowledge, capability, and/or will to run their own chat server when they can just use Discord for free and not have to worry about downtime or managing the server hosting.
While me and my friends could run a Matrix or IRC server or whatever the new open source chat awesomeness is these days we don't really see the point when Discord does everything we want and more and doesn't require any management beyond setting up our guild settings, channels, and roles.
- aseipp 8y agoThis basic problem can always be summed up as something like: "Extreme nerds who are almost completely divorced from the needs and skills of 95% of all computer users are BAFFLED by the fact Social Effects Are Real, and people do not know how to run their own servers. News at 11." and it's extremely predictable and always on-time.
- arminiusreturns 8y agoCome talk to me in a year or two when it's found out discord was spying on users for the government and/or selling everyone's data to shady third parties, or being used as a backdoor on systems, and tell me I'd the tradeoff was worth it. Of course I should have chosen my words more carefully, I understand child posters point about how technical things are hard, but I wasn't addressing a webboard of non-technical users... this is HN. I only use Linux for many of the same reasons, and I openly acknowledge it's not as "easy" , but there is Morea to the products and services we use than just that, and I think things like the Snowden/Wikileaks revelations of these issues mean that we as techies and general trend leaders in that world need to set a better example on the security and privacy fronts.