mastermindOne of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord
I like the continued migrations from Reddit but Discord doesn’t seem like the best destination
Yeah, to be truly useful, a community needs to be googleable. And discord is certainly not that.
NepentheThat, and the conversations move far faster there. Any remark about anything moves the subject further up, and you're essentially subjected to reading the comments section of the entire sub all at once when you just came for the memes.
Holding a conversation in such a large place would be near impossible from experience, no matter how many channels there are. It's just not going to be pleasant because it's not made for that.
WelchDiscord has threads now, works just like Reddit.
You can create a thread and people can comment on them just fine.
Looks just as clunky as the rest of discord. Sorry, its just not the same.
As someone that’s used it for work, I don’t find it very different than the Lemmy UI at all
Understandable, it’s not for everyone. It’s a decent option for someone that already has a discord account and wants to leave Reddit, but at the same time doesn’t understand/want to joint Lemmy or kbin.
Altima NEOYeah, discords a mess. Its a fine voice chat app, but for everything else, its like using a phillips screwdriver on a flat head. Yeah, you can probably muscle it out, but it aint gonna be pretty and theres better ways to do it.
Stillnah, it’s like using a Phillips screwdriver on anything, there’s better things in every way
Fair point. I keep forgetting that's a thing, because I've genuinely never seen anyone ever use it aside from one single time just to see what it did/harass another user. And then immediately everyone went, "Huh. Neat," and lost interest.
Understandable, it’s pretty useful in the IOS Beta community for being able to see new features or bugs without having them in a general chat group.
Very large discords don’t work for chatting.
Discords with 100-300 people with around 20-30% active and 15% very active with 20% popping in occasionally for an hour or two and the rest just lurking seems like a good sweet spot for discord servers
tinawebmom I wad on a discord with 20 people. After ten minutes I left. How anyone had a conversation is beyond me
you just gotta shout and hope they hear you
I think everyone really appreciates the occasional @everyone, helps folks remember they’re alive and all
It’s a skill those of us from the IRC days cultivated.
I’m glad I’m not good at it anymore.
They actually added a feature not long ago that’s supposed to make it more like forums or discussion boards, but it doesn’t appear to be in wide use, most servers just use the standard text chat thing and it’s a pain in the ass to find anything or keep up a normal conversation in there. I didn’t even realize it was a thing until a month or two ago when somebody else pointed it out to me. It apparently didn’t make a big splash at the time when it was released or they didn’t make a big deal about it.
trainsaresexyI don’t think fashion advice needs to be googleable?
I think you do want fast moving conversations. Like I could post a picture of me wearing a shirt and ask people what they think and then they move on. I don’t think you need that archived on the internet.
Yeah, lots of stuff is temporary, not like IT where solutions posted and searchable could save thousands of people headache and time.
Yeah, I am pretty sure it is actually the opposite of helpful if someone digs up a fashion post more than a year old, at most. Men’s fashion doesn’t change quite as fast as women’s fashion, but fast enough that it’s a bad idea to look in the archives unless you know what was in style at that time is still in style. And if you know that, why look it up?
Yeah, many users of hardwareswap were not thrilled to hear they’d be moving to Discord.
ext23I’m very tech-literate but Discord has always seemed so fucking messy to me. So many channels and emojis and I barely know how to send someone a DM or add them to my friends list or whatever. How on earth are you supposed to keep track of anything?
BitingChaosit’s chaotic as fuck and nothing like reddit / lemmy / kbin.
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Just a giant chat room, nothing permanent
It’s buggy as hell on mobile too, the official desktop client is literally just an app with an outdated version of electron that has 1gb memory leaks every 30 minutes
and discord will perform their own major enshittification stunt sooner or later
Yeah, it seems they're beginning to head that way, with the nitro first and then the super emotes or whatever they're called. I suppose I can see, if it's server cost, but the unnecessary bells and whistles are beginning to bug me and it's only going to continue.
datenyanUnfortunately, it’s a natural result of Discord moving from being a useful little service to a “platform” with investors and needing to constantly be updated with useless nonsense to keep the “value” of the product alive.
Realistically, once everything was up and running, and they had moved their DB over to their current platform, someone should have taken the keys away from them and just said “Discord is done, it’s complete”. We likely wouldn’t be having this much of a problem with useful information being hidden away behind Discord server invite URLs.
unlucky for discord they are the most replaceable platform of them all and there are already selfhostable clones
Sonotsugipaa“Will”?
willyaI found it depends on the sub Reddit.
That’s like getting kicked out of the home you grew up with to moving in permanently at a hotel, instead of getting your own home…
Yep that’s me… my name is Earl.
🗑️😸I rewatched that entire series earlier this year. It’s a shame it got cancelled.
That two part cops episode is a gem.
001100 010010No ur just crashing on a relative’s house
It’s like you and your friends getting kicked out of a restaurant and then deciding to hang out at a shoe store instead of just finding a different restaurant…
Discord is nothing like reddit/lemmy/kbin.
Frost WolfTrading one master for another, I see.
DingDongBelleh why not lemmy 🙂
That’s a big one. Good for them but I do hope they find their way to a federated instance eventually.
TheSaneWriterDiscord isn’t a good alternative, it’s not the same type of social media site. Discord is more of a chatroom aggregator, while Reddit is more of a forum aggregator. While Reddit technically supports chats and Discord technically supports threads, in both cases they’re clunky and not the main point of the site.
Honestly with Voyager, it’s hard to tell this ain’t Reddit lol.
Yeah! Main difference for me: I have to sort posts way more by new than ever on Reddit to find new stuff. Active an Hot sometimes have week old posts in them. But that is a Lemmy thing and not a Voyage* thing.
*It’s still wefwef to me!
Top/hour and top/6 hours are my go to.
I feel like perhaps wefwef was just a domain they had laying around and decided to use it. It was always a bloody strange name.
I guess that’s what I like about the name: it’s so different and strange. I started to use the Fediverse with different apps and wasn’t interested in progressive web apps but tried out wefwef just because it sounded different. As of now I browse Lemmy 95% with Voyager and like it a lot! Would have never tried it out had it another name!
SKLCSorting by Top Six Hour or 12 hour works the best for me I found.
Just for everyone that was unaware, as I was - Voyager the new name of once was Wefwef. 😂
aww why’d they rename it. I like wefwef
Indeed. Right now Voyager and Thunder are my two favorite ways to browse Lemmy.
It’s also centralized corporate-controlled trash, just like Reddit. I, for one, don’t see the point in swapping one abusive overlord for another abusive overlord.
hardypartDiscord is even worse, all the information there is locked behind a walled garten. No access without account, no way to google shit. I hate Discord, lol
GeneratorAnd much less accessible, login required, phone number, a ton of system resources. And a privacy nightmare.
If people thought that Reddit’s search was bad, they have quite the surprise waiting on discord!
Oh yeah, the search on Discord is abysmal. Especially considering that you can’t use Google to help, Reddit at least was public facing so Google searches would often find Reddit posts.
Why not Lemmy instead?
A lot of people already use Discord. If you try to get people to move to Lemmy, the vast majority of them won't bother, and then you just have a version of reddit with about twelve people on it.
I'm part of a couple of private men's style discords... one of them is a great, small-but-not-too-small community, and the conversation is much better than anything that went on on /r/malefashionadvice.
For what it's worth, I'd still be happy to see @malefashionadvice or @malefashionadvice take off, but they're both dead, as is.
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Seems to be a growing sub. Glad to join the movement
PseuAnd Discord meshes very well with other social media. Reddit, Youtube and Lemmy communities all benefit from having Discords as well.