[jacquesm]

> Pretty much everyone uses Discord now.

Errm. No. Not everyone uses Discord now. When making general statements like that it always helps to keep a bit of perspective: am I or am I not involved in a crowd that on average is more likely than other such crowds to be using piece of software 'x'?

At any one point in time 'everybody uses IRC', 'everbody uses ICQ', 'everybody uses Messenger' and so on would have all been equally false.

Almost everybody who is not a child in the developed world has a mobile phone. But not all of those are smartphones and there are still large numbers of people in the world who don't have any of this, nor do they have internet access (about 40% of the people, some because they are too young, some too old and some for other reasons), which is a pre-requisite for using something like discord.

By the time you're done with taking all this into account you end up with a paltry 140M MAU, a far cry from 'pretty much everyone'.

[charcircuit]

friends: all my friends use discord

school: there were various discord groups most people joined

work: Most of my communication with coworkers is over discord

fun: all online communities I'm a part of have a discord server

>But not all of those are smartphones and there are still large numbers of people in the world who don't have any of this, nor do they have internet access

Everyone I know IRL has access to the internet and except for some kids everyone has a cellphone.

By everyone I didn't mean literally everyone. I meant that if I want to chat to someone or about something 99% of the time discord is the place where that happens because that person uses discord or a discord server exists for that topic.

[jacquesm]

> By everyone I didn't mean literally everyone.

ok

> I meant that if I want to chat to someone or about something 99% of the time discord is the place where that happens because that person uses discord or a discord server exists for that topic.

But that's a completely different thing than what you originally said ("Pretty much everyone uses Discord now.").

I is the operative part here. Personally I've never used discord, and I don't know anybody IRL that has to the point that they have asked me to join and if they did I would probably refuse. I have enough comms channels as it is.

It is important to realize that when you speak in generalized terms you are usually just speaking for yourself, so better to phrase things that way.

[b112]

This is just your social circle.

For work it is IRC, zoom, slack. Never been asked, or know a single person using discord.

[jacquesm]

And here it's email first, phone second, sms if I can't be reached immediately. And I guess there are as many variations on that as there are people, with the number of comms options comfortably exceeding 33.