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One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord (www.theverge.com)
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[-] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Discord isn't a good alternative, it's not the same type of social media site. Discord is more of a chatroom aggregator, while Reddit is more of a forum aggregator. While Reddit technically supports chats and Discord technically supports threads, in both cases they're clunky and not the main point of the site.

[-] dm21@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I like the continued migrations from Reddit but Discord doesn’t seem like the best destination

[-] b34k@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

That, and the conversations move far faster there. Any remark about anything moves the subject further up, and you're essentially subjected to reading the comments section of the entire sub all at once when you just came for the memes.

Holding a conversation in such a large place would be near impossible from experience, no matter how many channels there are. It's just not going to be pleasant because it's not made for what they want to do.

[-] Tinawebmom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wad on a discord with 20 people. After ten minutes I left. How anyone had a conversation is beyond me

[-] Still@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

you just gotta shout and hope they hear you

[-] We1chy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Discord has threads now, works just like Reddit.

You can create a thread and people can comment on them just fine.

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[-] shitescalates@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Looks just as clunky as the rest of discord. Sorry, its just not the same.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, discords a mess. Its a fine voice chat app, but for everything else, its like using a phillips screwdriver on a flat head. Yeah, you can probably muscle it out, but it aint gonna be pretty and theres better ways to do it.

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Fair point. I keep forgetting that's a thing, because I've genuinely never seen anyone ever use it aside from one single time just to see what it did/harass another user. And then immediately everyone went, "Huh. Neat," and lost interest.

[-] ext23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] BitingChaos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's chaotic as fuck and nothing like reddit / lemmy / kbin.

[-] 50gp@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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

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

Discord is a black hole of information. Unindexable, unscrapable, borderline unsearchable.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

It also sucks you in and spaghettifis you.

[-] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's like getting kicked out of the home you grew up with to moving in permanently at a hotel, instead of getting your own home...

[-] everythingsucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yep that’s me… my name is Earl.

[-] trash@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I rewatched that entire series earlier this year. It's a shame it got cancelled.

[-] everythingsucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

That two part cops episode is a gem.

[-] BitingChaos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Frostwolf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Trading one master for another, I see.

[-] nodq@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

F discord. cancer of the internet. it is even worse than everything facebook or whatever. also gatekeeping content behind a software of a very shady company + forcing phone number for registration are just so many "no go"

[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] hardypart@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It's /r/malefashionadvice.

[-] fleabomber@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I get that discord sucks but it works for them, who cares? Those verge comments, woo boy.

[-] mayo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They went to substack for their wiki/guides content and discord for everything else. Different. Maybe it'll fit their social model better than a forum kind of place. I prefer my local mechanical keyboard discord over the much bigger subreddit.

Good to see that r/accidentalRenaissance is moving to kbin/lemmy. Also seems like a good fit for them here.

[-] coconutxyz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

eh why not lemmy 🙂

[-] Rearsays@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Why one silo to a worse one

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is how social media sites die. Not with big protests, but people and communities quietly moving away. Reddit won’t die at once in an explosion; it will be a slow, quiet process. Same with Twitter.

[-] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Why not Lemmy instead?

[-] danhakimi@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

A lot of people already use Discord. If you try to get people to move to Lemmy, the vast majority of them won't bother, and then you just have a version of reddit with about twelve people on it. Reddit thrives on scale and collective knowledge. If you're going to have a small community with three digits' worth of people, a chat service is the place to do it.

I'm part of a couple of private men's style discords... one of them is a great, small-but-not-too-small community, and the conversation is much better than anything that went on on /r/malefashionadvice.

For what it's worth, I'd still be happy to see @malefashionadvice or @malefashionadvice take off, but they're both dead, as is.

[-] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world

[-] flipthetube@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

That’s a big one. Good for them but I do hope they find their way to a federated instance eventually.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Discord is such a terrible platform for large scale communication.

Nothing pisses me off more than looking for a support link and being told you have to go to a discord. It’s terrible to search, generally requires a bunch of hoops to jump through verifying you’re not a bot and almost never has the info you’re looking for anyways.

Plus Discord is a shitty company removing features from paid users (custom tags) and forcing changes to be more like Twitter.

[-] oryx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Discord is great for making servers for friends. That's about where my use of it ends.

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