It gets a ton of shit here, but Discord reminds me of “the good ol’ days” when I was a teen on IRC and AIM. I think a lot of the problem today is there’s no co

It gets a ton of shit here, but Discord reminds me of “the good ol’ days” when I was a teen on IRC and AIM. I think a lot of the problem today is there’s no continuity in community or conversations by design, so a lot of sites feel extremely transactional. For example: you might read a YouTube comment that makes you laugh, but you’ll likely never read anything else from that person as long as you live. On forums you had people putting absurd effort into their “posting persona” and these people would be around for years and decades. They weren’t motivated by likes or retweets. They weren’t trying to get you to listen to their podcast or subscribe to their Patreon. They were just humans having a conversation.