I read “it’s dying” by people on Discord and Reddit all the time, but the numbers prove otherwise. It’s been going up this entire time and sitting over 3 billion MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS!
I feel like the bubble around people on other platforms saying “who uses Facebook anymore lol” is kind of wild given the numbers. Keep in mind these are active users not just abandoned accounts.
Yeah I just tell people I don’t have social media (which save for Lemmy and Discord is true), and we exchange numbers. Nobody I’ve run into has batted an eye at this. I think people really are coming back around to texting because it’s easier in a lot of ways. An exception to this is trans people, femme in particular, where being on Discord is so ubiquitous we don’t even ask if the other person has it we just assume it’s their preferred chat method…