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Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
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this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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Discord sucks but every alternative has some major caveat that makes it suck more. Most people don't want to use separate apps for voice and text. Most people don't want to manually type in servers to play games.
Not defending them at all here but there's no compelling reason for most users to change when discord works and it works well
I understand this but it's also a little "There's no compelling reason for us frogs to get out of this water. It's warm and comfortable". It's inevitably going to boil.
But you're right that there aren't great alternatives (that I know of). I think matrix is out there, but I don't know anyone who uses it.
That's also why the analogy exists, if the water slowly comes to boil, the frogs don't realize until it's too late, just like enshittification.
What happens when it's "too late" for your chat software, though?
The same thing as Digg I guess.
digg is currently locked down and will return triumphantly with some kind of shit they are planning and itll be very good its invite only my cousin can get me an invite but he said only if I let him peek at my girlfriend while she changes into her swimsuit. I think the new secret digg will be fucking very great I will let him do his peeking its worth it
I get the analogy but it's just chat software. Discord isn't that important to me that it's going to be a tragedy when it boils and by then, there will (hopefully) be an equivalent alternative we can move to. If not, we'll use something "worse" and it'll be fine.
But until then, it's still the best by a wide margin even if it has a stupid nitro button.