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miraphoenix · 11 months

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re: this post, discord isn't a social media, but fuckers keep treating it like one by migrating all of their communities and posts to discord in the wake of each social media fuckup, so it kind of is one by usage at this point?

Like. Nine times out of ten, if you're looking for information on something, whatever you're looking for is locked in some fucking discord server.

If you want help with a game or a mod? "Oh, come join the discord!" You want some support or have questions about a medical condition? "Hey there's a discord for that!" You want to talk to somebody about a hobby? "There's a great discord community!"

All of these things used to be on forums that were accessible without siloing yourself into an instant messaging box full of people all talking at once, to search for the one nugget of information you actually need in the moment. It would be like if you wanted to get eggs at the grocery store, but to get that one thing, you had to naturalize as a citizen of a foreign country first.

And don't get me wrong; I have a discord account, and I use it to talk with friends. But I would rather eat my own shoes than join a "community" just to get some answers to a question that used to be posted visibly on reddit, tumblr, or fuck forbid, a topic-specific forum.

(To top it off, this doesn't even touch on my thoughts that discord, being a social tech company in 2023, is going to implode like all the other social tech companies because of increased monetization pressure. It's just a matter of time before they make dumb decisions like reddit, or get bought out like skype.)

#phoenix sounds #long post #This is all to say: I agree with OP semantically but disagree based on how people seem to use it #Forums got shafted by social media and increasing hosting costs #Now social media is being fucked over by its own incentives and the venture capitalists calling for profits #And an instant messaging platform for gamers is not meant to replace any of that #But people keep. Fucking moving their communities off of accessible internet and onto discord #Which bites people in the ass right now #And will bite those communities in the ass in the future #To finish off too: if you think tumblr moderation is bad. At least tumblr mods are employees #Discord mods often aren't. So just keep that thought in your back pocket when you join some large server #Because the harassment and bad actors of social media exist elsewhere too #And it's one thing to wade through that when you're being paid. But another if you're not paid/you're not trained/you're just some rando

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