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Computers from 1998 couldn't run the monstrous amount of JS and/or surveillance that is Discord with any sort of performance.

https://stallman.org/discord.html

In fact, it looks like modern ones can't either:

https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/

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It is really frustrating to me that discord seems to have taken over half of the use cases that forums used to fill. Reddit stole most of the other half, but every time I look into discord I cannot understand the popularity and people's willingness to push past all of the privacy and access friction it introduces.

what's so hard to understand about why people are attracted to social media. we're social creatures

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