As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more.

    • cyberian_khatru
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      61 year ago

      It says it’s not so much a replacement, but rather you might want to use it if you want to follow a particular community irrespective of the platform/format. For example, right now there are several games whose communities are more active on discord servers than any of the other mentioned websites including reddit.

      • BobQuasit
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        31 year ago

        Except communities on Discord aren’t search-engine-facing, so they’re a complete dead end. Nobody can discover useful information there unless they are already members of that particular community. It’s the “walled garden” effect.

    • @ThunderTenTronckh@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Discords can create their own forums, with static posts people can respond to in dedicated comment chains. I think the potential is there, but discovering discords you want to join is currently very difficult.

      • @dangblingus@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        Not really, you just google the thing you want + “discord server”, follow the invite link, and if it isn’t what you want, just leave the server. It’s 1 extra click of the mouse than searching for a sub on reddit.

      • @legion@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        “immediate responses” is the problem. Chat discussions are very different in nature from forum-type communities. Often a lot more noisy and a lot less substantive.

        • @dangblingus@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Not really. Well moderated servers with large user counts are always divided into relevant channels where noise is suppressed by the mods and actual conversations occur. It’s nowhere near as chaotic as you think it is.

        • @dangblingus@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          No. Don’t be obtuse. Discord hosts special interest groups that can converse in real time and make sticky threads to be replied to forum-style.

          • @PixxlMan@lemmy.world
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            01 year ago

            It’s also unsearchable from any search engine, becoming a black hole for information etc… Unfortunately

            • @dangblingus@lemmy.world
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              01 year ago

              Not true. You search the discord server you want to join, follow the invite link, and boom, you’re in the server. Start talking to people, ask the community questions, and receive immediate response. If it’s not what you’re looking for, it’s easy to leave the server. Reddit isn’t popular solely because it’s posts appear on google search results.

              • @PixxlMan@lemmy.world
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                21 year ago

                I’m not just talking about popularity. To be frank, communities moving to discord is a problem imo. Discoverability is, frankly, garbage. Information provided by others users cannot easily be found at a later date, and even then YOU DONT KNOW where the information you might want could be. If I want information on an old game for instance, on a reddit or Lemmy like platform searching for the game would yield a result, on discord I’d first have to find out which communities exist and then search each one separately, filter out the garbage (Discord conversation is a lot harder to parse and a lot less information dense than Lemmy or reddit)… This leads to having to ask again, old information might be lost and much time is wasted, both for the person asking the question and the ones answering, for no benefit. Hope you can see my perspective here