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As a young adult who grew up with Discord throughout teens, discord has been so detrimental to my health. If it wasn't my group of comp peers in uni and hometown friends' choice of app, let alone the many fan projects with a home base on discord, I'd fuck off. I've considered setting up my own matrix server for friends, but well I've noticed ppl are unwilling to adopt new tech like matrix, and pc would drain dorm energy limit. All social media is bad in some way, but I feel that while I had bad experiences on all major platforms, Discord is by far the worst. There's so many servers run by people who are unfit to run them, whether due to power or greed complex, mental illness, or immature/irresponsible. May just be my experience (I was a real mess and a cunt during my teens), but even when things weren't my fault, it felt so toxic and horrible. And not to mention Discord's practices and stuff as a company. For instance, getting rid of the reporting system for bad actors, at one point an employee giving a bad actor backdoor to accounts, allowing them to access freely. More than that, but that's all I care to mention. |