[snowgrove]

Yup, and I don’t care. If I ever organize a protest I’ll do it on Signal, or another end-to-end encrypted platform. For daily banter I’ll use whatever a majority of my friends prefer. That’s currently Discord for the above-mentioned reasons.

[sneak]

You know that. It's unlikely that all of the rest of the people who join Discord because "all of their friends are on it" that your presence there influenced know that, and in many possible future scenarios, you and others' presence there directly contributes to the harm that may befall them as a result of their loss of privacy thereby.

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/cardinal_richelieu_183310

It's also impossible to effectively self-censor in the present for potential content-based threats in the future.

Discord also bans certain entire domains from being sent as links in DM, as an antispam measure, and requires in their ToS that people give up their civil rights to join. It's not polite to ask friends to submit to third-party censorship of private conversations just to talk to you.

[snowgrove]

It’s not polite to assume ignorance of all this on the part of my friends, either, but here you are.

If Signal didn’t suck as much, my friends wouldn’t have left and I wouldn’t have followed them. It’s really that simple.