> it encourages more conversation that are visible to more people since everything people say is not going to be trivially searchable for all time by anyone. I

> it encourages more conversation that are visible to more people since everything people say is not going to be trivially searchable for all time by anyone. It also encourages more people to be assholes in my experience. I'm sure there are well moderated chats out there associated with open source projects, but I had several such abysmal experiences with Discord in the past that I'm completely done with it.