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I think we've lost some and gained other. People may say that Discord and similar will compensate, greatly, as the number of interactions can grow a lot. On th
by epolanski 3y ago
I think we've lost some and gained other.
People may say that Discord and similar will compensate, greatly, as the number of interactions can grow a lot. On the other hand, I don't think the experience is comparable to fully focusing on the person you're eating in person with.
- rollcat 3y ago> People may say that Discord and similar will compensate, greatly, as the number of interactions can grow a lot. Are Discord discussions indexed by any public search engines? What about communities that are invite-only (without much actual reason to be so)? What about community admins who decide to take their whole thing down, communities that break site-wide rules and get removed by site admins, etc? Does Discord Inc. make any commitments towards publishing discussions that have archival/historical value? How much knowledge is already irrecoverably stuck in Slack's bit bucket, as people flocked away to the next walled-garden chat app?
- noitpmeder 3y agoI mean it's not like technical discussions over lunch at a Mexican restaurant we're indexable either. With the rise of AIs-hoovering-up-everything-reachable-on-the-public-web I'm not sure I want every conversation indexed either.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoDiscord is a poor replacement. I think it allows a lot of broad connections without depth which sounds good on the surface but unfortunately real insights require a bit of digging but the conversation has already moved ahead in the chatroom. That's why old school forums were actually a better kind of a discussion board but discord being free and not requiring technical setup won.