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Tons of software projects have moved their communities to discord. Not saying it's a great thing, but you're self selecting out of the future.
by noitpmeder 1y ago
Tons of software projects have moved their communities to discord. Not saying it's a great thing, but you're self selecting out of the future.
- GaryBluto 1y agoIf the future is unable to think critically, I'll stay in the past.
- nomdep 1y agoWhat would you use instead?
- GaryBluto 1y agoSelf-hosted forums, github's built-in forums, IRC; Practically anything but Discord.
- antonvs 1y agoHaving never used Discord myself, please convince me that I should never bother. I.e. what’s so bad about it?
- nicce 1y agoThink it as software which is designed for chatting NOW. Threads, pins and whatever are just treating the symptoms instead of fixing the actual problem, where you need organised and searchable knowledge library instead of platform which was designed for interaction with memes.
- lblume 1y agoIt is simply inaccessible to anyone not using the platform. You need to create an account and join the community/"server" to see anything posted there. You cannot find anything by using a search engine and are completely unable to export anything for local use.
- GaryBluto 1y agoWhat lblume and nicce said, with the addition of it being both a Chinese-controlled privacy nightmare (with it apparently requiring non VOIP phone numbers for verification after being logged in for a while), as well as it making the bar to entry for cretins close to zero, meaning you'll soon find whatever chatroom you set up a prime example of Eternal September.
- efilife 11mo agoChinese? Please elaborate
- 0manrho 1y agoJust because everyone is doing it doesn't mean it's a good idea, or that we should just shut up and accept it. That's the non-monied part of how enshittification proliferates: "Well everyone else is doing it!" "It's the future, get with the times and deal with it"