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I am on Discord and the balkanization+homogeneization is still as prominent there as everywhere else. Server admins are just NPCs providing @everyone announcem

by kaoD 10mo ago

I am on Discord and the balkanization+homogeneization is still as prominent there as everywhere else. Server admins are just NPCs providing @everyone announcements from time to time, to keep the player engaged (spoiler: the average Joe is just irritated by those). Sometimes you get a quest from them. Also: 99% won't read profile bios (and you have to pay for actual customization, don't you?) while forum signatures were front-and-center. I have to say I'm surprised to see Discord mentioned as an opposite to social media instead of... just yet another iteration of the same ploy.

squigz 10mo ago
> Server admins are just NPCs providing @everyone announcements from time to time, to keep the player engaged. Sometimes you get a quest from them. Maybe you should join better servers. I'll also add that this was common back in the forum days too. Most admins would just... admin the site. > Also: 99% won't read profile bios (and you have to pay for actual customization, don't you?) while forum signatures were front-and-center. Wrong on both counts. > I have to say I'm surprised to see Discord mentioned as an opposite to social media instead of... just yet another iteration of the same. I did not present it as an "opposite to social media" - I presented it as a counter to the idea that we've lost the personality GP is talking about
- BeFlatXIII 10mo ago
  You're one of the 1% who reads profile bios.
  - squigz 10mo ago
    Of course, because the alternative - that they're wrong, and more people actually do read bios - couldn't possibly be true. In any case, I see no reason to believe any higher % of people paid any particular attention to forum signatures back in the day.
    - BeFlatXIII 10mo ago
      “Paid attention”, you're probably right. Seen them enough to remember? Forum signatures were far harder to miss than Discord bios.

by kaoD 10mo ago

squigz 10mo ago

> Server admins are just NPCs providing @everyone announcements from time to time, to keep the player engaged. Sometimes you get a quest from them. Maybe you should join better servers. I'll also add that this was common back in the forum days too. Most admins would just... admin the site. > Also: 99% won't read profile bios (and you have to pay for actual customization, don't you?) while forum signatures were front-and-center. Wrong on both counts. > I have to say I'm surprised to see Discord mentioned as an opposite to social media instead of... just yet another iteration of the same. I did not present it as an "opposite to social media" - I presented it as a counter to the idea that we've lost the personality GP is talking about

BeFlatXIII 10mo ago
You're one of the 1% who reads profile bios.
- squigz 10mo ago
  Of course, because the alternative - that they're wrong, and more people actually do read bios - couldn't possibly be true. In any case, I see no reason to believe any higher % of people paid any particular attention to forum signatures back in the day.
  - BeFlatXIII 10mo ago
    “Paid attention”, you're probably right. Seen them enough to remember? Forum signatures were far harder to miss than Discord bios.