Public* online communities are dying. Discord is thriving

2ndorderthought 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Discord is terrible. Full of bots, creeps and ai slopped to the gills.

Some communities are better than others but the sheer volume of stinky trash is immense despite discord and the poor volunteer moderators efforts to prevent it. Most mods are neutral on it too.

There are chat communities that are still somewhat safe with zero user verification. But I will not mention them.

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bsder an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I really don't understand the folks fleeing to Discord. A mailing list does 99% of the same thing for most of the communities.

Sure, if you want to chat while gaming, that's the whole point of Discord. Ganbatte.

But, for everything else, Discord is such a horrible misfit that I don't understand why it's the default.

	▲	zahlman an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> I don't understand why it's the default. Because it equally well supports real-time communication. And it looks shiny. And some people use it to e.g. watch a video together, or other social purposes.

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GaryBluto 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If all you value is sub-IRC level irreverent discussion, maybe.

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echelon 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This. Everything important has moved to discord. Which is sad because of how undiscoverable and unsearchable it is.

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Keyframe 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm more sad about how the UI of it all is just clunky. Even though it resembles ye olde IRC clients like mIRC, nowhere near readable for some reason.

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cloverich 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

are those attributes now assets?

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pjc50 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Pretty much. It's the survivability onion. You can't be destroyed if you can't be discovered.

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bluefirebrand 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sort of, except if no one can ever discover a community it is always dying by default

Personally I'd love to find a decent online community these days, my social circle has shrunk considerably, but idk. It seems difficult to start fresh with new people nowadays

	▲	order-matters 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		we were made to socialize in person. you can mimic it online and nourish existing connections over it but nothing helps build friendship more than being in the same place at the same time a few different times and talking to each other

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ceejayoz 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This shit will come to Discord too.

	▲	order-matters 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		on the public servers yeah. but the ones im in with real people who know each other will be fine. I think the problem is not keeping agents out of private real people spaces, but for people who dont have any pre-existing or 'real world' connections to these communities to find a way to prove they are a real person over the internet alone and get an invite On a related note, I think this is going to be the biggest challenge to most folks when it comes in resisting using government ID online. it will be the apple offered for easy proof youre not a bot to normal circles.
	▲	thesuitonym 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's already there.