At least you can access information on reddit from everywhere, and for the time being, without an account. Discord has the scumminess of reddit turned up to 11 and people love it.

I mean if you could point to anything remotely as easy to use and functional as discord then this joke makes way more sense.

All you need to do is take a look at the working versions of these apps (slack, teams, etc) at some of the main features to see how crap the competition really is.

Walled garden makes it sound like a place someone maintains for communal pleasure. Lobster trap makes me picture someone caged for sale. Delicious lobster.

The widespread use of Discord baffles me. It seems to be basically IRC with voice chat and no choice in servers. It’s good for group voice chat with people you already know, but I can’t see how it fits any other use case like being a replacement for a subreddit community.

I am. Use Matrix or Revolt.

Discord is already hard at work to undo itself.

While people still resist the Fediverse they will happily keep jumping from walled garden 1 to walled garden 2 because they lure them with convenience. But Discord is already starting to go to shit.