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ajuc 13 hours ago

This is why open source for communication platforms is so important.

Discord WILL disappear at some point and millions of people will lose their communities.

baud147258 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Discord's just a platform. When Discord will disappear, I don't think it would happen overnight and the communities would have time to decide where to relocate, hopefully for an open-source self-hosted solutions, but more likely for the next hot thing in instant communication. And it's not as if communities don't move from platform to platform already: like wasn't there a big wave of people moving from Digg to Reddit a while back?

s_dev 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Online communities are far more transient and far less effective than ones rooted in geography. I'm not saying that they don't provide value or aren't worthwhile.

Online communities can rebuild quickly are more resilient in a sense e.g. Digg to Reddit migration.

squeefers 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

for discord emigres, teamspeak still exists, and for social media all you need is an old school forum that hosts videos and voila

ckardaris 11 hours ago | parent [-]

The author of the article claims that a mere migration to a new platform does not solve the problem. It just fragments the community. I agree with that. For one or another reason not all people will migrate.