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Counter-example experience: At some point I tried to find an active community to discuss Electrical Engineering. I sampled 8-9 Discords, and they were all dead
by sho_hn 3y ago
Counter-example experience: At some point I tried to find an active community to discuss Electrical Engineering. I sampled 8-9 Discords, and they were all dead and all had redundant #general and #offtopic channels.
##electronics on Libera otoh is highly active.
Discord sucks because it's way too fragmented and diluted.
- lmm 3y agoDiscord is fragmented and diluted because it's the only way to survive (other than by being small enough to be irrelevant, as IRC does). Using any social system that isn't fragmented and diluted for anything other than bland pleasantries carries too much risk of becoming today's "twitter main character".