#later on chat worked similarly as in text chat applications at the cost of compromising its P2P nature and also user privacy

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this culminates in people posting the memes comparing Discord's file upload functionality with Skype's file upload functionality which I initially assumed to be ironic in a similar way as those memes comparing a brick and a windows pc where the conclusion is that brick wins because it can't run league of legends...

but at this point a nonzero number of people are taking it seriously, in which case I need to remind people that the reason why Discord limits file sizes is because it stores them pretty much indefinitely for you, for free, as opposed to Skype's file upload where both the sender and the receiver (yes, it's strictly point-to-point) have to be present for file transfer to succeed, the internet connection at no point can fail, so good luck uploading that 2GB file over your dinky 50KB/s upload connection you would likely have at the prime of Skype's popularity (also in my experience getting Skype file upload almost never worked)

if this form of file transfer is desireable, we have modern solution for this, in the form of Magic Wormhole, which is in no form tied to an existing chat protocol or service, and does not require you to set up accounts anywhere.

The nostalgia for Skype is so fucking funny. Like come on. Even now discord is objectively better than it ever was. Skype was genuinely dogshit and anyone trying to pretend like it wasn't either never used it or has completely forgotten what it was like