Discord has some awful UX patterns, but somehow many communities have slid into adopting it as a general information resource. There are certain kinds of conten

Discord has some awful UX patterns, but somehow many communities have slid into adopting it as a general information resource. There are certain kinds of content where barriers to entry aren't that important - people go where the content they want is, and that's that. That's why Something Awful can still exist with a $10 paywall. The Lemmy software already works well enough to have a critical mass of traction for general-audience memes/pictures/news. The rest is "well, maybe sometime down the road". No big talk about late capitalism needed.