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Absolutely. Information can no longer be retrieved via internet search. Discord and Slack are effectively silos.
by happyweasel 2y ago
Absolutely. Information can no longer be retrieved via internet search. Discord and Slack are effectively silos.
- dbg31415 2y agoA lot of sites now block non-Google search engines from accessing their data. Honestly, I find it easier to check a Discord server than to get useful results from DuckDuckGo these days. Google has done whatever it takes to incentivize people not to use competitors. It sucks.
- nijave 2y agoSure but you can search for communities then use the platform-native search. Not as convenient as a search engine natively supporting, though.
- meta-meta 2y agountil the discord server goes down
- nijave 2y agoIf the thing goes down there's no guarantee any indexer/scraper is going to index/scrape it
- tcfhgj 2y agoyou have to have an account, with mobile number
- nijave 2y agoAre you sure? I seem to remember Discord requiring an email but not mobile number I know Telegram absolutely requires a mobile number, though
- bmandale 2y agoIt will sometimes let you register without a phone number, but other times it will demand one. I imagine it has to do with IP reputation and how many accounts have been created from your network recently.
- culi 2y agoSame thing can be said about Twitter and most of Facebook
- UberFly 2y agoFor now at least. Some day everyone's relatives will be digging through databases of their ancestor's grand wisdom filleted wide open. Maybe it'll even use all that info to recreate an Ai version of them. Sorry just thinking out loud.
- culi 2y agoThat sounds awful. But there's no reason why Discord can't go the same route. Some chat apps like Zulip have the option to open a channel to the web. It can even be indexed by search engine bots