• nomous@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      IRC is a completely open source protocol that anyone can develop clients and servers for, it’s been around for decades and has an army of dedicated fans and devs.

      Discord is a program owned by a private company that everyone is using to chat while the company slowly implements pricing and walls their proverbial garden off.