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[-] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago

the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it

That's what many social media companies have said, lol.

But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

I still don't know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn't work at all the same way and search sucks.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Yah, I don't get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it's not like it's going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It's utterly bizarre.

If you're running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

The one thing Discord is good at is engagement, aka pinging people on their phones, repeating conversations that have been answered a million times, getting people drawn into rambling discussions...

Yeah it's kind of a nightmare lol.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Exactly instead of a bunch of publicly searchable information silos we have a whole bunch of fragmented private ones with absolutely no overlap and far less useful. We need a publicly funded site of some kind.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's the most popular alternative, simple as that. There's (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Discord is such a piece of fucking shit

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'm getting closed to hosting an XMPP server and getting the fuck off discord. They can rot in hell

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