this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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Discord is only convenient for those already using it everyday. For everyone else this is a high barrier to entry, especially when you actually care what software you use.
My brother in Christ, this is a Linux community. High barriers to entry is literally what you signed up for.
Won't consider all those people inviting to join and wanting to give help, with community written wikis that only this OS has actually useful a high barrier.
If an OSS project is designed to connect people with each other, and it doesn't do that well, it's kind of a failure.
Looking at you, Matrix.
You could say this about virtually any modern social media platform. Hell, half the reason I'm on Lemmy is because Reddit hates me if I try to look at something without signing in first and then hates me even more for signing in and participating in a community.
Discord isn't any more difficult to enter than Reddit (or Lemmy, for that matter). At the worst, I'd consider it a modernization on IRC with Microsoft Characteristics. I wouldn't call that high at all. At its best, its a great live chat space for niche interest groups to organize.
I used it for a short time when it first came out. I went back for another look recently. I haven't a clue what is what. So much going on. I thought I don't wish to spend the time learning something I probably will use a couple of times a week.
Is this what getting old feels like?
I can name myself a technical person, using stuff like these everyday and always trying new software. And I too have problems doing something above basic on Discord sometimes, especially on mobile.