• @Riyria
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    The comments on the post the mods made yesterday about discord are awful. “Get over yourselves,” “Spez owned you guys,” “Why would we go to Didcord, we chose Reddit.” They’re all from accounts that are 8+ years old that have never interacted on MFA or didn’t start commenting until Rexxit started.

      • @Riyria
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        Sadly I didn’t, it came about pretty early on.

      • Rick
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        It’s both current and prophetic… ;)

        • @dottedgreenline@lemmy.ml
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          111 months ago

          I agree it’s a great name, but I am still annoyed by it’s real world counterpart. I guess brexit was all about racism and corporate greed, while rexxit is the same but opposite.

    • BarrierWithAshes
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      They’re half right. Discord is a horrible platform. Why tf would they go there?

      • @Riyria
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        Oh yeah no, I don’t disagree that going to discord of all places is a horrible idea. I hate discord and I hate that people are trying to use it as community alternatives, but the real issue is the Reddit apologism.

      • @rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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        Discord is good for live chat, but horrible for aggregation and public discussion. I mean that’s why most of us are here, because the platform works well for our needs. Supposedly Discord has a forum, but I’ve never seen a link to it on the regular site and from what I understand it doesn’t get much traffic. It’s simply not in a position to be an alternative to Reddit.

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        Discord is the best chat app ever created. (but I agree, it’s not a good reddit/forum replacement)

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          Sure, but probably the worst for community-forum style content. Links expire, information moves all over the place, no search indexing for engines, can’t view content if you aren’t in the server already, basically impossible to have discussions about anything older than the current day. It doesn’t work for a lot of use cases that reddit/lemmy do.

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            Agreed, and I never said it is a good reddit replacement. I think discord is lightyears ahead of previous platforms that it replaced like Ventrillo, Teamspeak, AIM, Whatsapp, ICQ, etc etc etc

        • @rbhfd@lemmy.world
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          It’s okay for private/semi-public group based chats. It’s not made for public threaded discussions.

          It’s a horrible alternative for reddit.

        • Anomander
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          Sure; it’s just so good at being a chat app that it makes a terrible forum.

          My understanding is that it can be done and with a whole host of third party tools and bots and a little legion of mods - but that’s a ton of work both setup and ongoing, just to reshape Discord into the sort of format that Reddit or Kbin/Lemmy offer pretty much right out the box.

        • neoinvin
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          But one of the worst for everything else it tries to be or people try to use it for, like help forums. It’s a black hole for information. They’ve taken steps to mitigate that, but it remains a half-baked solution.

        • BarrierWithAshes
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          111 months ago

          Absolutely not. And in no way is it a viable replacement for Reddit. Not now. Not ever.

          • Bipta
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            111 months ago

            I mean, it probably is the best chat app besides privacy. That is, unfortunately, not at all relevant to replacing Reddit.

          • flipht
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            It’s not a great replacement for a forum experience, a “I need to search for an answer to a specific question” experience, or anything like that.

            But for the sense of community that people tended to identify with their favorite subs? I think it’s a pretty solid platform. Still has all the same issues regarding any centralized service run by a company, but that’s going to be the case for the vast majority of replacements until there’s a major paradigm shift across the world.