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Centralisation is why we have issues with Reddit at the moment. It puts you at the whims of a single company, who will eventually want to make more money (after all, they're not a charity). For example, Discord could one day announce that you only get the 500 most recent messages for free, or limit the room size, or make some other changes that vastly impact how it's being used today.
I really don't want to have to go to multiple different sites to search for information. That's why we have search engines. Discord being a walled-garden makes it a lot more difficult than it should be.
(yes, I know, this also sounds like centralisation, but we have a choice of multiple search engines, plus I can self-host my own searx instance).
I was talking about centralizing communication in terms of a specific project. A game for example. Imagine you are an indie devs. Traditionally you would need to run your website a forum some sort of voice service and a server. Now you can do all that with one app.