i have been making this argument for a long time now, everyone seems to have a different app these days and no one seems to be able to explain why, for a long time ive used hangouts which seemed the sensible choice, its pre-installed on almost all android pones and most anyone with an android phone has a google account automatically giving you an IM service that isnt tied to a mobile number you may change at any time<p>yet for some reason people suddenly started telling me i needed to switch to whatsapp "its much better" only it really isnt, in fact it does pretty much the same thing only its tied to your phone number which in many peoples cases can regularly change and since then any number of other apps that all do the same thing<p>but i think i may just be getting old, people sing the praises of discord like its something new and amazing but to me it looks to do almost exactly what IRC has been doing for decades<p>but that sees to be the direction were moving in now, lots of apps to do the same thing, until recently if i wanted to play a PC game i opened up steam and played, but now things are changing and you have to have 3 or 4 store apps (increasingly the utterly abysmal Epic store)