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Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. (www.xataka.com)

submitted 3 months ago by i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] clot27@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Honestly who uses discord nowadays? its completely unbearable

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

its completely unbearable

How so?

[–] MossyHabitat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Discord is OK for real-time chat or VC, but is awful for forum-like discussions. Comment-specific context is lost in the single-threaded noise and search is borderline useless. The true forum-designed format of Lemmy, Reddit, and predecessors is far and away better. In my opinion Twitter - the legacy, ubiquity and tech - would be a better forum than Discord. That was hard to type and I need to quickly bleach my fingers.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

People who use it (for forum type chatting) are probably trying to avoid non enshittified platforms. Ironically they don't realize discord is heading towards the same path. Free screen sharing, high quality voice calls, image and video sharing and file sharing for FREE is not sustainable. Eventually they are going to crackdown on its users, which is unfortunate but predictable.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Matrix is the way to replace discord everyone! It is very rough around the edges, but it's (AFAIK) all self hosted. I even read about discord "bridges" that copy's your discord channel content into matrix!

https://matrix.org/

[–] Bezzelbob@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like it's all the ppl who unironically use "kitten"

[–] putty@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

discord isn't a single group lol, it'll be the type of people that are there for the group you're getting into lol. If your discord is for a hobby with creeps, then yeah they'll be creeps. All the hobbies I use discord for don't have that issue, what kinds of discords are you going into?