TBF, there was one issue with Nick's Discord which makes Locals the better option
in theory. Namely, when you signed up for his Patreon (or NP2, when that was a thing), either Nick, Soter or (maybe)
@KEK7go had to manually send you a Discord invite. That also meant that they would have to check to see if somebody halted payment and then manually remove that person from the Discord. With Locals, it's all one automated system. I could see why Locals is preferable. From what I have been lead to believe, there were quite a lot of people in Nick's Discord who weren't actually paying the monthly amount.
None of that explains why he felt to need to go full on degen, of course. Had he not done that, he probably could have gotten his old Discord audience to migrate to Locals. Instead, a great many of them appear to have simply fucked off.
Speaking of Patreon, Nick has only 76 Patreons now. That's only 10 more than Spoony. Oof! That's probably another reason why he doesn't care about his Discord anymore.
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