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Having used discord in the past. Most of the conversations were just shit posts. Nothing serious. Why even bother storing a trillion messages of garbage in the
by xyst 2y ago
Having used discord in the past. Most of the conversations were just shit posts. Nothing serious. Why even bother storing a trillion messages of garbage in the first place?
- aurareturn 2y agoHow do you differentiate shit posts vs quality ones if you’re Discord?
- adzm 2y agoBecause that is literally what Discord is for
- hypeatei 2y agoThat's why I laugh when people say discord content needs to be indexed on the web so things are more discoverable. 99% is garbage and the useful messages are scattered across channels.
- retsibsi 2y agoI'm not trying to be a smartarse but doesn't this describe the entire internet? The good stuff is rare and scattered, and that's why search is so important.
- jcgrillo 2y agoJust wait until the LLM bots start arguing with each other on discord ;)
- hypeatei 2y agoAt least with forums, there are dedicated pages for whatever is being discussed. Discord is just a collection of channels with topics being split up across multiple messages and shitposts in the middle.
- huimang 2y agoMany people within niches have discord servers for researching and discussing specific things. There is a large wealth of information locked away behind them that can be lost pretty much whenever discord decides to start pursuing different monetization strategies.
- squigz 2y agoThat sounds like it was a problem with the communities you engaged with.
- jerryspringster 2y agoHow do you sort the good from the bad? I'm sure most of my conversations were shit posts aswell but some weren't, especially when it figuring out how something new worked or how to fix a problem.