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Honestly if anything wants to unseat discord they have a looooong ways to go. Discord is, imo, the most important communication tool since web forums became a thing.
I think a lot of people only have a couple of servers joined and don't really interact with them.
For developers it's worth is incalculable. There is a reason I happily pay for nitro.
Not all services are bad. If they had sold to MS or whatever company was courting them a while back then I would have had an issue, but literally all they have to do is just keep being good.
If something came up that were as easy to use as Discord but didn't store all the chat centrally unencrypted... I would be well in favor of that. Like if each developer could just fire up a private server instance and I could add that server to my list and chat in their channels and jump around servers? That would be super awesome.
But yeah, I'm in probably a dozen Discord servers that I mostly follow for gamedev news or YouTube channel post updates or whatever, that I never really interact with.
It's very similar IIRC to IRC, just... with a GUI that makes it easy to use for non-techies and those of us who just don't have the time to memorize commands.