Discord is a mind virus.

A friend of mine from elementary school explicitly will not communicate with me unless I used Discord to do it. I was even okay with using Steam chat, but he would only use it to tell me to use Discord. 

It blows my mind that people can actually be more loyal to companies whose sole propose is to extract value from them, than friends they've had for most of their life. That's just such a weird hill to die on.

I bid him farewell and to enjoy his relationship with Discord. He said he will. Now I am down one friend.