• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      so. much. this.

      Discord is just an AOL chat room. Great for short-term conversations among 20 or fewer people. It’s not a good place to store your FAQ. It’s not a good place for large teams. It’s not a good place for anything searchable. It’s transactional. And I don’t know why people treat it otherwise.

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        1 year ago

        or interesting convos have a mod chime in and ruin it

        “hey guys can we move this conversation to x-chat”

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          God I can’t stand servers that are Nazis for that. Guess what…natural conversation will change topics over time. I’m sorry I can’t keep up which of your 100 channels I need to jarringly break away from the convo and hop into whenever the topic even remotely, slightly drifts from what it started with. Discord channel Nazis don’t understand how human conversation works.

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        1 year ago

        I love discord for small communities, not that I have that many I’m in though. But friend groups, and niche topics. Places where the chat generally is a single discussion or two at a single point in time. And the voice chat is superb. Just drop in and out is convenient.

        But it sure as fuck doesn’t compete with what reddit and Lemmy is doing.

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      I spend a lot of time in the r/furry discord server

      It’s a wonderful place to just chat. Imo, discord is fine as a chatroom