One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord

Yeah, I actually hate that forums are being abandoned in favor of Discord. Especially since a lot of the moves are for tech support. Discord serves an entirely different function than a forum. A forum is for someone 10 years ago to ask a question, get it answered, and then have that question pop up as a search result for the next decade whenever others have the same question. You didn’t need to create an account and start your own thread to get your question answered. You just googled it and found it.

Discord acting as a replacement simply means that people constantly ask the same “how do I [x]” questions all day every day. It’s exhausting because every single question needs to be answered with it’s own reply, instead of simply having the answer ready to go as soon as the user googles it.

I get it. You’re a startup tech company. You don’t want to pay for server space for a forum. And Discord is free, so you might as well just start a server there. But that means your admins/mods are going to spend all day responding to every single “how do I update”, when it could simply be a google search instead.

Thought the same when I was reading this, weird they wouldn't migrate here, unless they are unaware of the Fediverse

Yeah def not a good replacement for micro blogging. It’s almost impossible to catch up Discord even with slow mode on.

I find Lemmy cool. Hope more people leave Reddit for it and we can rebuild a decentralized place no one company can control.

Plus, I've seen communities try this during the blackout. I didn't see the outcome for other communities, but on/r/Dota2 at least, people despised the suggestion because the discord already had an establish culture and that culture was basically shit.

So you were told to go take your activity and do it in a place of a different format, with different levels of topic focus, on a more personal level, in a place where you're basically an outsider butting in and the people there don't even really share an interest in discussing what you want (which was at the time a big tournament).

That's an astronomically terrible idea. And the worst part, not just did we have THIS website, we also had other forums (even the steam forum). I dunno what reddit mods have to be smoking to willfully ignore those in favor of a chatroom.

It's going to be really difficult to get most people used to the idea of decentralized federated services.

Indexing it is hard to impossible, too. Collective knowledge does not truly get retained

I'm on a Discord where people thread conversations and it drives me nuts. There are other reasons I'm there, but I've been tempted to leave over it.

Discord actually has "Forum" channels that work like Reddit. You can create posts and search for them. So if you use Discord right you could more or less recreate Subreddits inside a single Discord server.

Not a fan of them moving to Discord instead of Lemmy, but anyway, fuck Reddit.

I'll just drop this here: !buildapcsales@lemmy.ml

They probably already know how to use Discord, so they think that it's easier to migrate their community to a service that they already understand vs. researching an alternative, learning how it works, and then trying to migrate their community.

Also, a lot of their members are probably on Discord already, so you don't have to try to convince them to sign up for a new service on top of everything else I mentioned earlier.

Sales seems like one of those things that makes sense for Discord, most of them are time limited so no need for an archive to search through

Same story with Twitter users going to Meta's Threads instead of Mastodon. Most people don't see privacy online as an important matter because it's non-tangible for them. They go with the "safe/popular" option only for the story to repeat itself later...

Because nobody really cares about free as in freedom. Speaking in hyperbole, of course, but you step outside of our tech savvy bubble for just a moment and it feels that way very quickly. As far as they're concerned, Facebook is free. Threads is free. Switching from twitter to threads is just switching from one shitty free thing to another free thing that they think will be less shitty. Of course it's less shitty now, they want users. Mastodon? Pleroma? Seems kinda confusing, what's a server? Is FB a big server? Yeah... Free software alternatives have some PR problems to overcome at the moment. Now if there could be a new thing, a killer app, that was free? That would be insane.

At least their client isn't hot trash like reddit though 😂

It doesn't!

Is this really a hot take? Discord is awful for anything but active discussions in the moment. Trying to retrieve any information from the past on a Discord server is infinitely worse than even Reddit's (commonly mocked) search function.

I would disagree on the grounds that this will functionally just break up the community, which is the best outcome. People will get bored and move on to the next thing, and both reddit and discord will lose.

I'd also like to mention meta too with how some instances have been open to hearing them out. It's like people went and deleted their reddit content because they didn't want to add value to the reddit platform for people to find through search engines and interact with, but then they are fine with provoding content that can be engaged with for Zuckerberg over Spez? Call me crazy but Reddit is still way better and preferable to providing content for their userbase to interact with than Meta.

I disagree. Discord is one of the only non-federated social platforms resisting enshittification.

Back at the very beginning they said that any monetization they offered would be optional add-on purchases (not ads) and that those add-one would never involve removing the existing core features to sell them back.

Almost a decade later and they haven’t show any indications of straying from that promise.

Seriously. A firmware I use only really uses discord to communicate. It's near impossible to find fixes for anything on there.

Same here. The sub is private now so i can’t check the members figure quoted in the article, but if correct, subredditstats.com puts it near the bottom of the top 100. So ‘one of the largest subs’ seems a bit of a stretch.

There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas. Probably in Tennessee that says, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again.

Yeh discord is an absolute mess imo. As soon as there are any decent number of people it just becomes like a bloody twitch stream chat.

It’s a chat app, not a forum or Reddit replacement. I wish people would stop suggesting it as one.

IRC was a lot of fun back in the day. The other day I jumped on undernet using a web portal. Oh yeah there were people there but it was quiet as could be. I jumped around a couple channels like my old hangout #Florida and nothing. I may try again another day.

Considering the numerous comments I've read in the last few days saying something along the lines of, "What!? Cargo shorts are out of style? I'm never giving up my cargo pockets!"

I'm guessing that currently there isn't a lot of overlap between those two communities. But I'm hopeful that a MFA and a Frugal MFA take root here soon!

I think it's by number of people who signed up for your letter and read it. Then you can sell ad space in your newsletters.