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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by privsecfoss@feddit.dk to c/foss@beehaw.org

I'll start:

  • RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
  • XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
  • IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
  • Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
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[-] Nyoelle@beehaw.org 35 points 1 year ago

Sadly, oftentimes, Forums are replaced by discord, despite... how different those are.

And, discord is inferior in so many ways. Not only you can't easily search for the content, you also need an account on centralized proprietary software, that also is quite resource heavy. Not to mention the privacy concerns.

[-] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Discord servers are also closed communities which makes it impossible to search for info through search engine

[-] Nyoelle@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Yep. It is a bit funny, and sad to see how we are regressing, despite the technology going forward...

[-] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

There are opt in bots in deveopment that allows individual servers to be indexed for search engine visibility

[-] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 1 points 1 year ago

Which you just know nobody is going to bother with installing on their guild.

[-] alongwaysgone@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

It's also very hard, if not impossible in some cases to find old conversations on discord, vs forums where they're mostly preserved for eternity.

[-] JTR@lemmings.basic-domain.com 7 points 1 year ago

Not to mention how crappy the linux client is for linux users (I use one of those "thirdparty" clients myself, since the linux client is unbearable)

[-] kris40k@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

trying to have an async conversation over time on Discord (and other IM solutions) is garbage compared to forum threads. While Discord added threading, in my experience not enough people have either adopted it ,or use it properly.

undefined> trying to have an async conversation over time on Discord (and other IM solutions) is garbage compared to forum threads. While Discord added threading, in my experience not enough people have either adopted it ,or use it properly.

I agree wholeheartedly, Discord is great for being a live chatroom, and for chatting over voice chat with friends, for any other purpose it is awful, and I am so baffled by so many product decisions to move to Discord. I feel like its a bunch of younger kids that played with their friends on it, and it has become the Hammer they use for every communication scenario, when most things are not nails.

[-] knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping Discord is passing phase I can largely ignore. I will deal with it if I need to but it seems like world of proprietary crapware.

[-] Nyoelle@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Software, services come and go, so maybe, soon enough...

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