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What went wrong with Skype? (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's so long ago that my memory might fail me. Skype didn't need a hosted server and that made it accessible.

[–] Giooschi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And then Discord arrived

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah and like anything getting big, here we are, Discord trying to go public and fuck everything over. The cow is fat enough to be milked then butchered until it's nothing but bones and scraps.