Yeah, to be truly useful, a community needs to be googleable. And discord is certainly not that.

I'm very tech-literate but Discord has always seemed so fucking messy to me. So many channels and emojis and I barely know how to send someone a DM or add them to my friends list or whatever. How on earth are you supposed to keep track of anything?

and discord will perform their own major enshittification stunt sooner or later

It's also centralized corporate-controlled trash, just like Reddit. I, for one, don't see the point in swapping one abusive overlord for another abusive overlord.

Honestly with Voyager, it’s hard to tell this ain’t Reddit lol.

And much less accessible, login required, phone number, a ton of system resources. And a privacy nightmare.

If people thought that Reddit's search was bad, they have quite the surprise waiting on discord!

So nothing has been lost.

If a bunch of 20-somehtigns wish to get advice from another bunch of self-important 20-somethings on what to wear they may as well fuck off to the moon for all I care.

Yep that’s me… my name is Earl.

It's like you and your friends getting kicked out of a restaurant and then deciding to hang out at a shoe store instead of just finding a different restaurant...

Discord is nothing like reddit/lemmy/kbin.

From one centralised platform to another. Feels like poeple don't learn.

It also sucks you in and spaghettifis you.

Exactly.

The protest wasn't supposed to be about causing problems, it was supposed to be about making a point. That's what people who opposed the protests never understood. Including Reddit.

They kept saying "oh it'll calm down and then everyone will come back to the site", well, it did calm down, but only because people decided they couldn't be bothered with them anymore. Since there were always other options, people went there. (God only knows why that didn't occur to the likes of Spez)

I mean, I think Discord itself is fine

I think how people are using discord as an info source is a huge issue.

It's a good form of Chat messenger, something you wouldn't want to index (99.9% of it would be spam)

But pretty much in 10-20 years we'll probably have a ton of communities have complete breakdowns because they stored all their information somewhere that doesn't let them take it with them when they leave.

Basically I think Discord is just going past what it was designed to do.

I go to Discord for very different reasons than to Lemmy/Reddit. Lemmy allows any arbitrary number of parallel dicussions on specific topics, the same cannot be said for what's essentially a bundle of chat rooms.