Why didn’t these mods suggest Lemmy/Kbin instead of Discord? I don’t get the appeal of Discord. Why would you want to be in a massive chat room with a bunch of strangers?
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I agree. I dont get why people use things like discord or slack to discuss stuff especially with lots of users.
A lot of users push for Discord. Very few (comparatively) push for Lemmy/Kbin.
I was a mod of a 500k+ subreddit. We wound up basically being forced to make a Discord a few years ago because users wanted one so badly. It wound up becoming more active than the actual subreddit itself, and has a bigger mod team (most of whom aren't even mods on the subreddit, just Discord).
It's interesting that they say:
Now, based on the Reddark tracker, the biggest subreddit still private is r/streetwear. According to Zach, who told me last week that he is also a mod of that community, it has more than 4 million subscribers. The subreddit also has a Discord.
When there's even !streetwear@lemmy.world although I note they try and redirect people on here over to Discord. All seems odd.
edit: also note there is a !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world to soak up refugees.
Discord has forums now.
which you can't access without joining the "server", and they're completely inaccessible to search engines, so there's no way of finding them without knowing which "server" to join.
Yeah, but it's still Discord. They're jumping from one platform run by a dodgy corporation to another.
Not to mention the walled garden, phone verification only bs of discord.
Oh interesting. What’s Discord’s gameplan? Same as the rest? Capture a bunch of users then go full corporate fuck the users strategy? The ol “try this amazing free thing! Contribute content with your friends!……” “thx now pay us to access all the content you freely contributed. Kthx bye. Also we are selling all your data. Kthx.”
I have no idea. I didn't even know they had these until people were suggesting we move to discord from Reddit a couple months ago.
I use discord the same as you. Hop in a voice chat with friends and then close discord. I've never used it for anything other than a bloated ass voice chat client lol
Edit: didn't realize you were a different person. I use discord the same as the other guy I replied to.
How do they work? I only use it to chat it up with the boys on game night.
Similar to any forum. Server admin can make sub forums, and users can post in them.
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-Forum-Channels-FAQ
r/malefashionadvice
Saved you a click.
!malefashionadvice@lemmy.world
Keeping everything joined up.
discord literally having a concurrent controversy (the name change); and they feel it good to go there?
besides. discord is useless as a reddit replacement. discord is not indexed and you cannot retrieve the data publicly; much like facebook groups which would be the same thing. i mean; who doesn't (or didn't) use +reddit in their google searches for the past 2 years?
discord has also been bleeding users lately.
and, it's another corporation. worse than reddit. with a poor track record.
but sure! let's move to there! sounds brilliant! i'm sure all will be well!
...what's next, facebook groups?
Facebook groups, for their many failings are still miles better than discord tbh
Yeah, even if searching content is atrocious, and it focuses on the latest posts by design (like reddit) so you have the same questions posted multiple times a day. And the tool doesn't even support the goal of the users. It's still a more appropriate tool than discord. Plus, it has the userbase.
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