People that only have an artificial online presence can evade these negatives while not missing much in my opinion. Facebook, Instragram and Twitter have all a

People that only have an artificial online presence can evade these negatives while not missing much in my opinion. Facebook, Instragram and Twitter have all a specialized demographic and all these platforms are orientated around people instead of topics. This is why I would not compare them to irc, reddit, 4chan and similar consorts as the parent did. Given, that probably does have much to do with a difference in audiences. Problem with Discord is that it swallows content. Nothing is searchable (cannot crawl discord, only relies on internal search), I believe that will cost many communities in the long run. It is convenient for small indie developers, but discoverability is extremely inhibited. But the major difference is personalization. Now everyone gets their own search results. In favor of advertising against general education. This is a huge factor why the net is worse. Also, if you look up any term that is part of the news cycle, you only find shitty news rags that pushed their presence with nepotism and have a direct business relationship to search engine providers.