Discord is such an awful alternative to choose.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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Agree. Itβs good for small communities that want to have an ongoing conversation but itβs horrible for large communities. No easy way to scan content, find info, or even engage in a conversation.
Have to agree. Discord added a forum post view to popular communities which is sorta like Reddit, but not really. For really large communities, the noise from high traffic channels is tough to filter out.
It's been going downhill at an increasing pace lately.
Response from the dev here. It sounds like they would rather not take a stance on the practicality of one service over another.
Oh, of course, you gotta tell people where communities went. I just find Discord a questionable alternative to Reddit.
From my perspective, Discord is just another Reddit. Don't they centrally manage everything? If so, their views will inevitably clash with the community's.
Lemmy, KBin, and other federated services have the benefit of anyone being able to start their own community and make their own rules.
Using discord as a replacement is like permanently sorting by new. I really like the voting mechanic and that's what set Reddit apart, along with subreddits.
It's not functionally the same.
Exactly. Switching from Reddit to Discord is just switching from a website controlled by one evil corporation to one controlled by a different evil corporation. Discord is still in hyper-growth mode, so they aren't going to be screwing over users yet. Reddit is in "cash out our chips" mode, so screwing over users for profit is the way to do it. In 2-3 years, the investors in Discord will start wanting to see revenue. That's when they'll start introducing user-hostile features.
Yes, Discord is centrally managed just like Reddit and has the added disadvantage of not being publicly viewable.
While it's a massive pain for a lot of reaaons, it's also an advantage in many ways, reddit went wayy down hill due to more and more people coming to the site
If they wanted Discord, they could have gone Matrix
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Just took a glimpse and saw that AITA is listed to have migrated to kbin. But when I check it they only have 30 subscribers whereas the lemmy.world /c has over 600 subs.
Does this site reflect where the oroginal mods went? Or did every sub announce where theyβre officially migrating to?
(I am aware that i can see all the comms in my feed. Iβm just wondering how this site works)
Some of them have multiple links listed so it doesn't seem like a binary 'this sub went to that instance'. There's a 'suggest link' button, perhaps try using that for the lemmy.world AITA community.
Yeah, I'm kind of wondering where this data is coming from... for instance it lists /r/sysadmin moved to sysadmins.zone... but who decided that? There's literally nothing about that website anywhere on /r/sysadmin on reddit, and that page only has like 20 users on it whereas the sysadmin community here on lemme has around 1,500 people on it.
Thats brilliant, thank you
A good place to submit the record if you are mods on either side
Ahh looks like it requires it to be minimally active, I Hope my version of character forge takes off but it's also a really slow reddit to begin with!
This is great info, I'll be sharing it around !
Pretty neat.
Very helpful, thank you!
THANK YOU! This is just what I was looking for.
Nosleep when?
Most subs migrate to Lemmy + kbin :
This is the way.
I really wish there was a way to save posts. I guess this comment will have to do!
A folder of bookmarks also works. It's old fashioned of course...
Please keep updating
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I'm new to Lemmy/The Fediverse but I am a little confused on how to use this website. So when I go to that website I see links to a bunch of places. I personally created my account on lemmy.world, but all of the links on that website go to other websites that I'm not logged into and I can't use my lemmy.world login to sign into (can I?).
So to use the website, I have to go to a second tab to http://lemmy.world/communities# and then search to find the same websites that are on that page.
Am I getting that right, or is there a way to use links in the fediverse to open onto their equivalent on my host? Hope I'm asking this right but I'm very confused about how to handle things like external sites and links.
you can simply mutate the url from https://other.instance/c/community to https://your.instance/c/community@other.instace but yeah, it's a pain. It's a good opportunity for a simple browser extension or script that does some URL rewriting.
I found that on mobile, Jerboa has some instance url associations for major instances and that means that links can open in that, where you're logged in to your account on your home instance, and it handles it. but it's been hit-and-miss for me as to whether it'll open in the app or continue in mobile browser.