If I recall correctly, (and I could be wrong about this) early Mastodon had somewhat of a similar issue, with the large majority of users centralized on mastodon.social. As time goes on, I imagine more instances will pop up. I honestly think some more generalized instances will do wonders for this, but I know this is a heretical opinion on the Fediverse, where people want a three-person instance for Amstrad programmers and Magic-the-Gathering-enthusiasts named Larry from Ohio.
More likely due to shady anatomy studies than murder, tho.
But you see, those communists were bigoted modernists who believed words had meanings and that material reality was important. Good thing we’ve got benevolent capitalists in our society to teach us stupid working class folk about lived experience, anecdotal evidence, the elastic definitions of words, and that material conditions don’t matter. Anyway, better get back to my Uber gig, then lock myself back up in my isolation cell to watch Netflix. Empowerment! /s
I used to love Discord and think it was a very good piece of corporate software, and I happily moved all my communications to it at one point. When I started to move to FOSS alternatives to most corporate social platforms I got rid of Discord too, then I tried to go back for the sake of my friendgroup, but when I went to make a new account, it decided it needed a phone number to verify me, because of my VPN. Then I got banned. Then I made a new account, and got banned again. I don’t have any more phone numbers and can’t really get back on Discord, and this seems like a massive flaw to me.
In addition to this, all sorts of group chats, message boards, forums, etc, have now been locked behind this wall. Projects and communities that used to have an IRC or a forum are now almost exclusively located on Discord. It’s like Facebook in this way.
It’s also just a shitty electron wrapper around a webpage, which I have FeelingsTM about.
Not to mention the MASSIVE problem Discord has with pedophiles and groomers.
If only there was a way to make it wider. Our screens are wider and content narrower than ever. Many webpages are just a narrow strip in the center of my screen, as if I were browsing a mobile site.