

Oh, yes. If I mention that “well you’ve made an account before” they will immediately be convinced.
I am still going to try, don’t take my prior comment as me throwing in the towel, but the chances are slim I’ll be able to convince all the people I’d want to. And even if they make an account, chances are they’ll rarely boot up the app and forget about it.
Discord has a certain critical mass that will be difficult to beat.
It’s why I think Firefox (and forks) are the only real alternative to chrome. Switching to edge, Vivaldi, opera, Helium, brave; none of it truly gets you away from google’s dominance.
I suppose there’s always safari/webkit too, but that’s apple.