So Long, Twitter and Reddit

Post by gaws » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 8:58 PM UTC

gabereiser wrote: post #43

tmpX7dMeXU wrote: post #37

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I find it utterly insufferable. I, a very technically capable person, really struggle with using Discord. I can’t help but feel that people that misuse Discord in this way are doing it from a place from extreme ignorance and hubris. It is so blatantly not intended or appropriate for what a bunch of people use it for. The only thing it has going for it is that the person setting up the community knows how to use it. I…

So long as you have the nitro. I’m with you and I think it’s entirely ignorance and hubris. To be fair to discord, I think they know this. They know their product market fit, they know their audience. Their customers are those community managers that like shiny things and surveillance powers. The fault is entirely on those community managers thinking their customers would like it too.

Post by gaws » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 9:02 PM UTC

thefz wrote: post #110

reactordev wrote: post #11

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Discord is not a social platform. It's a chatroom for gamers, to share memes and voice chat while they play . It's not a base for documentation. It's not a platform for your next product (other than a bot..) launch. It's poorly designed for searching, for knowledge, for connecting. It's 2020s version of ICQ.

Exactly my use case. I admin a community of around 20 people that chat together about games and to pass the day at work sometimes. We post stupid stuff or interesting things to read. Some days pass by with zero messages, some are frenzied. We get in voice channels and chat and game together. I am a guest in other similarly sized circles' discord servers and this way I keep in touch with different groups. For this use…

Post by gaws » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 9:04 PM UTC

seanhunter wrote: post #34

RaisingSpear wrote: post #22

> Discord has been decent for a while. I suspect enshittification will commence soon Discord was enshittified years ago. It's just that nothing really changed recently, unlike Twitter/Reddit, so it's not making the news. You've got a platform that's completely inaccessible without an account. Acquiring an account often requires handing over a mobile number. And Discord can then ban you arbitrarily, despite never post…

Goodness knows you can validly critise discord for any number of reasons but the time taken to log in on an untrusted device isn't really one that resonates with me. I have done this recently and the process took all of 5 seconds. Here's the process if you have a phone and want to do it fast: 1. Click login on discord on the untrusted device. It shows a qr code next to the credentials box. 2. Log in on phone (which f…

Post by bmicraft » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 10:33 PM UTC

gaws wrote: post #135

dormento wrote: post #114

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We use Discord at my company. It was a compromise between us graybeards wanting email + issue tracker only and the new people wanting... Discord.

> the new people wanting... Discord. Had they never heard of Slack?

Post by SubGenius » Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 11:43 PM UTC

wise_young_man wrote: post #139

SubGenius wrote: post #10

> Discord has been decent for a while. I suspect enshittification will commence soon, so we should be on the lookout for an alternative over the next five years. For folks who want to move their communities to a publicly accessible Matrix server, I'm building Shpong [0]. Heavy WIP obviously. The trend of moving to closed-off spaces is bad for the open web. I'm hoping we're able to reverse it, despite everyone wanting…

This looks like a really cool project. Is it open source?