| My entire online social life(which got really big due to friends moving and covid) is 100% on discord. Many of my friends also don't have social media and we all exist within a discord server and share our lives and game together very often. Discord has this buy in like a social media platform for a lot of people. It's what I've described above--plus communities moving to discord and away from reddit. If you do an online game now you will end up on discord if you're even halfway serious about the game. One of the big things discord has allowed for my friend group is it's the first platform like this that has brought in the "normies". People who would never visit a forum and didn't even know teamspeak or ventrilo ever existed. It's a smooth experience at almost all times on desktop and mobile. If you go to college nowadays most of the majors have discords--and study groups have discords. My friends don't even text me anymore, they DM me on discord and have for years at this point. |