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Sure there might be long term effects of making Discord more like traditional social media. But there could also be long term effects of people saying "huh my f

Sure there might be long term effects of making Discord more like traditional social media. But there could also be long term effects of people saying "huh my friend didn't get my friend request, well forget this buggy site".

personjerry 3y ago
Sure, that's exactly the retention metric I mentioned (or we can call it activation), but another way to look at it could be that the people who said "forget this site" may not have stuck around or converted, so in fact you could be retaining the users with high LTV and gatekeeping against low/negative LTV users
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  On a site aimed at people who pay a lot of money to solve puzzles and learn skills with persistence.
  - Aeolun 3y ago
    Installing mastodon is rocket science. I can see why people call it difficult. Typing the correct name into a field is not. I have a hard time understanding who’d fail at that.
    - quickthrower2 3y ago
      Yes exactly. It is almost a feature. If you can't type their handle properly, are they really a friend?
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