its not illegal things im worried about its companies taking thes hit i say in discord and giving me recommendations for it on youtube or something like that
i dont want that. i'd rather pay for something than have companies secretly profit off of me without telling me.
i think discord is cringe because servers exist, it's not very friend oriented and everyone uses it. when everyone is too dependent on one thing, that means that a company holds a monopoly on it, which is bad. discord is not decentralized either, it's owned by a company that has been adding pure and utter bloat and bullshit to the application for years. for one, the discord desktop app is literally just another web browser, it's built on electron and uses a lot of ram, when you could just be using discord in your web browser. typically what that means is you'll have a web browser running and then also the discord app and in my past experiences with the cord, the desktop app uses a lot of ram.
i used to use ripcord for that reason because everything was compact and not a shithole to use, but it made viewing videos and gifs kind of a pain, voice chat worked though and you got to see hidden channels which is pretty cool. you'd basically be better off using telegram or something.
another thing i find weird is that in actuality, Steam pretty much has all the features that discord has, you can make group chats, voice calls, send gifs, send memes, etc, and steam also has its own fucking web browser thats just open 24/7 so at that point you are running like 3 fucking web browsers when you COULD JUST USE ONE!!!! but thats just what happens when modern tech is all fucking web apps these days,
