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[–] hal@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago (32 children)

Good. Discord is the cancer of the free searchable internet.

If you really need communication, use XMPP or Matrix.

And for everything else use stuff like forums and Lemmy and mastodon reddit Twitter whatever. But not closed walled gardens that are not searchable on the net. It's astonishing that so many people gatekeep content behind this Discord crap.

[–] ArtVandelay@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

But not closed walled gardens that are not searchable on the net. It’s astonishing that so many people gatekeep content behind this Discord crap.

I disagree entirely. People have a right to privacy. It's like demanding that we remove all the walls of all the buildings because you want to see what's going on inside.

I'm not much of a Discord user, chat has always been harsh for me because I need time to gather my thoughts. But one thing I do like is how closed-off it is. Reminds me of the private-mode old forum softwares have (which Lemmy should give as an option for the instance owners, actually).

[–] crius@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Discord is a chat and the default setting of every server is that too see the content of it, you need to join the server.

It make sense for a chat.

However, companies and communities have largely misused discord and basically turned it in forums.

Lots and lots of knowledge is spread on these chats with no way of finding it unless you know in which server to join and provided they do not shut down at some point.

On top of that, the discord search feature is barebone at best.

This is the problem with discord.

[–] ArtVandelay@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

There's already a lot of knowledge everywhere, and nothing groundbreaking will stay confined within Discord (or any other private-mode social media website/interface/service). I don't understand the argument from that perspective, sorry.

I can see how some companies that aren't Discord would be desperate to get their hands on the content generated there, especially to feed the hungry AIs. But, again, there's plenty of public platforms to leech off of.

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