For many communities forming a Discord seems to be the most popular option. The may not know any proper alternatives. This needs fixing, they could just run their own forums instead, they could form their own Lemmy instance!
And the very features that makes forums desirable require good moderation, while on Discord a toxic community can be left mostly unmoderated due to the semi closed and transient (in appearance) nature of the chat. Having the same on a (google) searchable forum that make it easy for people to find and see the toxic content would pretty soon result in demands for better moderation.
I find it sad that this is the reality we live in, but from a business perspective I can kind of understand it as the target audience of these gaming websites can be quite toxic.
For many communities forming a Discord seems to be the most popular option. The may not know any proper alternatives. This needs fixing, they could just run their own forums instead, they could form their own Lemmy instance!
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And the very features that makes forums desirable require good moderation, while on Discord a toxic community can be left mostly unmoderated due to the semi closed and transient (in appearance) nature of the chat. Having the same on a (google) searchable forum that make it easy for people to find and see the toxic content would pretty soon result in demands for better moderation.
I find it sad that this is the reality we live in, but from a business perspective I can kind of understand it as the target audience of these gaming websites can be quite toxic.
They banned nwordbot 😿 . Now who will check the chuds?