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Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Discord is fine for chatting, voice, and iterating quickly on projects. I have no idea why people want to think it's a forum. That's ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Its pretty awful for all those things if you care about privacy or can't signup for an account

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

also not searchable at all. its an information blackhole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Iirc strictly speaking you don't need an account to use it, but most servers disable that option for anti spam reasons. But if you're setting up a server for friends they can chat from a browser without having to sign up first

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Discord is self-hosted?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No, but discord chats are usually called "servers"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Obviously you would need an account to use it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We use it for our friend group, as we have pub nights, group meals, vacations etc. we also all do each other's cat care when we're out of town, so we have a channel devoted to pet photos etc. works well enough for us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Exactly. That's a great use for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Unpopular opinion: I never liked discord for chatting either. I found it strangely confusing trying to keep track of logins for each group

Edit: I am indeed thinking of slack

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

? Discord has one log in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

You may be thinking of Slack