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And if all your friends are hyper focused on tech and decentralization and open source software, they should have no problem switching!
If, on the other hand, you have friends who fall into the rest of the 99.9% of society, they will react like you suggested they replace all their meals with raw potatoes.
0.1% is generous. It's much smaller.
True, most normies probably don't even see any issue with Discord's ID. They'll just do it when it pops on their screen, and move on with their lives.
It’s a pretty steep hill for most people to make a full on switch like this. I have, for the past year or so just begun suggesting that people download the app (element for example) when the topic of evil tech companies comes up. At least that’s a first step. Then when such a topic comes up next time I ask if they tried it out etc. My hope has been that they would at least know one alternative when stuff like the recent Discord ID thing is happening
I'm moving and my friends can either come along or be left behind.
Edited to add, I didn't expect Lemmy to feel so strongly about my friends. The fact of the matter is that I created my current discord community and friend group. I run the TTRPGs they all play twice a week. So they can come along to whatever I switch to, or stay on Discord and figure it out for themselves. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but I'm leaving Discord either way.
How did they get to discord in the first place then?
Because, shockingly, Discords user base is not made up of people hyper focused on tech and decentralization and open source software. It's mostly people who just want to play video games with their friends.
Sure but it's not intuitive, it's a pain in the ass, yet there they are. They learned something new at one time, moving away from whatever they had before, why can't they again?
But the entry barrier is very low. Click on a link, enter a nickname and start chatting. It literally could not be any easier.
This is different for all of the alternatives.
Except when it isn't. Like the confusion of a name, claim a name, channels, requirements to meet some bullshit before you can speak, and chat in which area and all the while it looks really awful.
I did basically the same thing with someone today, I sent them a link they clicked and we started chatting with Jitsi.
Realistically the issue is creating the place to go, not the service itself. That is the more difficult part.
If everyone else moved, they would too. But no one will, so they won't. Same as it ever was.
Yes, just like how they got there in the first place.