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
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I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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 suggest they replace all their meals with raw potatoes.
j_z@feddit.nu 6 hours ago
iamthetot@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
I’m moving and my friends can either come along or be left behind.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
How did they get to discord in the first place then?
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Because, shockingly, Discords use base is not made up of people hyper focused on tech that care about decentralization. It’s mostly people who just want to play video games with their friends.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
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?
B0rax@feddit.org 8 hours ago
But the entry barrier is very low. Click on a link, enter a nickname and start chatting.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
If everyone else moved, they would too. But no one will, so they won’t. Same as it ever was.
frank@lemmy.fraxoweb.com 13 hours ago
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.