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by TulliusCicero 515 days ago
> People one go where the technologically literate tell them go.

No they don't. If this was true, my wife's family would be on Telegram or Discord, haha. We actually did go into Telegram briefly, but they all dropped out. What got them to switch from SMS to WhatsApp was her parents temporarily moving to Austria.

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Technologically literate people don't recommend Telegram or Discord.
> Technologically literate people don't recommend Telegram or Discord

No True Scotsman is Exhibit A for why technology-first platforms tend to fail.

What videocall service other than Discord lets a normal user individually adjust other call participants' relative volume or even mute them? Because for me, that's the killer feature.
Maybe you don't have a lot of credibility with them ;) If someone would recommend me to Telegram I'd also doubt their credibility.