• Devanismyname@lemmy.ca
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    21 hours ago

    Whats the draw of discord? I don’t get why people go on there. It’s boring af and you gotta talk with people while you play video games. I’ll go on if I absolutely have to for a group, but I avoid if I can.

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      8 hours ago

      Being able to enter and sit inside a call where your friends can see that a call is active and who is in call is a really nice feature. It completely negates having to ping a whole group that may or may not be available like with Skype.

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      16 hours ago

      Whats the draw of discord?

      Chat plus streaming as a freemium service that has its hooks in with the networking effect.

      Probably the biggest draw of Discord is how many people use Discord. But past that, it fills a bunch of real time social media roles well.

      As a case in point, I’m in a game of Pathfinder Kingmaker with friends, and Discord does a good job of letting players join virtually, sharing screens, rolling dice, keeping a log of the different chats, pinning the links to the Kingdom management files, and providing a search function to find historical info.