What do you do for work that Discord was the viable option, even though it didn’t have the features you needed unless you dropped $200 in microtransactions?
What do you do for work that Discord was the viable option, even though it didn’t have the features you needed unless you dropped $200 in microtransactions?
Yeah, 500,000 users. Are you in servers that are hitting that max?
Discord has forums built in. I know everyone hates it when I mention it, but there is continuity on Discord and has been for several years now.
Fewer barriers to entry and faster responses from people using Reddit/Facebook/Discord. Forums are great for indexing and posterity, but they’re absolute dogshit for meaningful information exchange. Unless you know exactly what your problem is, to the point of barely needing help, you probably won’t be able to word your question in a way that experts can understand, and the assistance they provide generally comes with a lot of assumptions that you’re familiar with X, Y, and Z. I can’t tell you how many forum posts I’ve read over the decades that just sort of end without any resolution of the original problem. It’s all too easy to lose pertinent information in multi page threads (esp if the pages extend into the 10s and 100s), and new users, the ones most in need of assistance, are overwhelmed by experts overestimating the new user’s abilities. Discord on the other hand lets you instantly get feedback from experts and allows you to refine your question in real time.
It’s likely that most episodes aired before the dawn of home video recording (early 80s) are completely lost media. NBC and other networks weren’t in the habit of archiving tape-to-air media.
The irony is that all it would take is one high profile person or a nation state to commit to using Mastodon, and slowly you would see the numbers start to increase. People are actively looking for an alternative to Twitter, it’s just that the vast majority of people have no idea that Mastodon, Lemmy, or the Fediverse on the whole exists. That’s a double edged sword. Better content moderation with lower numbers, better social media infrastructure building becomes the norm with greater numbers.
I’ve found slashdot, over the last 2 decades, has devolved into climate change denying, capitalist fellating, wildly off topic flame wars in the comments. As a news aggregator, I’ve never seen an article hit slashdot before it hits reddit or lemmy.