Decentralization: IRC wasn't as decentralized as people make it to be. All the top servers were in freenode and other centrally managed networks. Discord trap

Decentralization: IRC wasn't as decentralized as people make it to be. All the top servers were in freenode and other centrally managed networks. Discord trap: IRC was non persistent. For that comparison you can shift away from discord quickly. If you care about persistence and search of messages then yes discord has a lock in, but again this wasn't even a feature of IRC.