A more charitable interpretation: "everyone who wants a Discord account can have one with almost no effort." Indeed, a person without a Discord account can clic

A more charitable interpretation: "everyone who wants a Discord account can have one with almost no effort." Indeed, a person without a Discord account can click an invite link, click a few more times, and be chatting in a server (claiming your nick/setting a password is a few more clicks IIRC). Can the same be said for IRC/Matrix/email? IRC: maybe, I've seen some webchat frontends that make it really easy to start. but people expect voice chat, embeds, etc so IRC doesn't really cut it anymore (which I find very sad)