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Discord is so cooked. It's Reddit all over again. And that place is utter trash now. Mods and Admins not even following their own rules, zero accountability.

arcologies1985 8mo ago
On Discord Mods and Admins are just other users. They're not Discord staff or employees. (Reddit is different, admins are Reddit employees).
- BloodyIron 8mo ago
  I was giving a similar, but tangibly different, example of enshitification. It doesn't have to be a 1:1 translation to be a relevant example.
illusive4080 8mo ago
Sadly Reddit hasn’t been meaningfully replaced yet. It’s a place filled with of censorship, power hungry mods, arbitrary rules, and groupthink to the extreme. I long for an alternative. Something civil like HN and community like Reddit.
- BloodyIron 8mo ago
  We'll see how the future unfolds. Until then, I have plenty of other things to do. And I bet you do too :P
- tonfreed 8mo ago
  I miss the decentralized web and phpBB forums. If you didn't like one community, it was super easy to find one you did.
  - m4rtink 8mo ago
    A lot of traditional forums are still active. :) Just the hype seeking people left to Discord and Reddit to be able to lament about how these new places are awful and crying about phpBB and vbuletin being dead.
    - dannyw 8mo ago
      Traditional forums may not have grown as much as social media, but they’re definitely still alive and vibrant. And honestly, higher quality conversations and community than Reddit and discord.
    - tonfreed 8mo ago
      Must have just been the ones I liked that died. Will have to go looking
  - mrtesthah 8mo ago
    Lemmy is a federated reddit-like community that anyone can host themselves. Here's one of the top servers: https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1 https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMont...
- dyauspitr 8mo ago
  Such as it is I can’t think of any other forum even close to Reddit. HN is civil because of solid moderation and “censorship”.

arcologies1985 8mo ago

On Discord Mods and Admins are just other users. They're not Discord staff or employees. (Reddit is different, admins are Reddit employees).

BloodyIron 8mo ago
I was giving a similar, but tangibly different, example of enshitification. It doesn't have to be a 1:1 translation to be a relevant example.

illusive4080 8mo ago

Sadly Reddit hasn’t been meaningfully replaced yet. It’s a place filled with of censorship, power hungry mods, arbitrary rules, and groupthink to the extreme. I long for an alternative. Something civil like HN and community like Reddit.

BloodyIron 8mo ago
We'll see how the future unfolds. Until then, I have plenty of other things to do. And I bet you do too :P
tonfreed 8mo ago
I miss the decentralized web and phpBB forums. If you didn't like one community, it was super easy to find one you did.
- m4rtink 8mo ago
  A lot of traditional forums are still active. :) Just the hype seeking people left to Discord and Reddit to be able to lament about how these new places are awful and crying about phpBB and vbuletin being dead.
  - dannyw 8mo ago
    Traditional forums may not have grown as much as social media, but they’re definitely still alive and vibrant. And honestly, higher quality conversations and community than Reddit and discord.
  - tonfreed 8mo ago
    Must have just been the ones I liked that died. Will have to go looking
- mrtesthah 8mo ago
  Lemmy is a federated reddit-like community that anyone can host themselves. Here's one of the top servers: https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1 https://lemmy.world/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMont...
dyauspitr 8mo ago
Such as it is I can’t think of any other forum even close to Reddit. HN is civil because of solid moderation and “censorship”.