@Suiseiseki >Why are you contradicting yourself?

ok, let's put it this way, being on "a phone network" and "using a phone network" are two different things - you're on the network if you have stable phone subscription and a phone number, but you can still use phone network without being on it by using a payphone or buying a prepaid single-use sim. Discord is all the same - you can make yourself a profile, use it as your primary mean of communication, share it with friends etc. OR you can make an account "niggerfaggot12345" just to connect to a server to say something to someone.

>It is not possible to kill a proprietary network service/software combination by using it, as you're only making it more cemented, as you increase the network effect.

Yes you can, and you can make it worse, if you shit in a room everyone else wants to leave it, but you need to enter the room first to shit in it.

>A more accurate simile would be that the only way to eliminate a certain kind of proprietary street would be to preach against it in a church, rather than walking along the proprietary street and thus not practicing as you preach.

If you preach against it in a church you're just repeating yourself to the people who are already agree with you, a literal echo chamber, you need bigger reach.