Reddit is for kids, discord is for kids. Seems pretty straightforward.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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They could've at least tried Matrix (or even XMPP)
I wish I could explain exactly why Matrix just doesn't feel great. I think it's a combination of janky-feeling clients and how uh ... Servers? Rooms? Communities? Circles? Whatever those are... are set up.
Wish XMPP was being given more of a chance.
Discord is like an over bloated IRC, I wish IRC was more common these days because it is just better for chat. But using discord as a forum alternative is hilariously stupid.
I tried to get into IRC, but it lacked a lot of things that are basic nowadays, such as the ability to view past history of the chat and embedding media. I didn't want to sit around for hours just to see what people would write about.
Skype was king
Having some limited history would be nice, yeah. I actually prefer the lack of embedded media though. I can click a link to look at it, and I'm happy to not have a bunch of images, gifs, and embedded videos crowding out conversation.
Look up IRC bouncers in that case to see chat history. Given this is lemmy I am sure you can just add it to your Linux server.
Thanks for the nudge. Today might be the day I actually dive into this stuff!
Trading one echo chamber for another is hardly an upgrade. Each has their pros and cons.
Anyone that willingly uses Discord deserves their fate
Curse you, Network Effect!
Discord is like slack for outside of work
Yep.. and it's also an information blackhole in the long run.
Yeah, worst thing to ever exist. MSN messenger and Skype didn't have this issue (and more but my point isn't to endlessly list old messenging platforms). People used them as chat rooms and that was it. Turning them into crappy makeshift forums was the most stupid idea people could have come up with.
Kind of like a business having a Web Presence and when you Google them it's a link to their Instagram. Garbage.
I'm on a bunch of different discord servers and I fucking hate them. Just a giant fucking soup. I'd would actually rather they be subreddits. I would much much prefer them be forums or lemmy instances, but anything is preferable to discords.
Lemmy instances or IRC, either would be better.
Maybe some people like it when corporate screws them over. If people can like Billy Ray Cyrus they could be into all kinds of weird shit.
I think all of us have Friends in Low Places.
Talking about it here because I don't know where else to talk about it, but has anyone else noticed that Reddit has gotten incredibly bad with bots lately? I no longer have an account on Reddit, but I still browse sometime, and came across this post:
Of the top 20 comments, only 4 had karma over 10,000, 0 had profile pics that weren't snoos or NFTs, and all but 3 or so echoed the same vague message 'see a therapist.' Is it just me, or does it seem to anyone else that such cookie cutter comments are not the true thoughts of actual human beings..?
Regardless of whether it's bots or just Reddit culture to have such spammy content, I'm incredibly pleased at least with how many instances require you to write a little message about why you want to join to prevent bots. I've just seen a lot more comments of actual substance here, idk
Eh, my avatar is still a snoo and that's definitely a human account over a decade old. Rest still holds tho. It's been bot city for a few years now, it's only noticeable since pigboy drove away actual content creators
And OPs who forget to remove the ChatGPT blurb at the end of the post saying “this story has several themes reddit users get angry about so it is likely to drive engagement.“
You're right
The thing that I hate about discord as a replacement for forums is that it is completely closed off from the outside world. There's no searching it except from within discord. You have to join the server to even try, and discord's search sucks. It's an informational black hole that contributes nothing to the larger internet.
In some cases, like threads, there's no searching within Discord either. And let's say you find someone asking your same question, right? They don't list the replies the way 4chan does, so you're stuck manually scrolling and reading and hoping someone said something relevant. I like Discord just fine for certain applications, but why did everyone decide to use it for everything??
Also, I can't PM people unless I'm friends with them or we share a common server. What is that? There's literally no privacy option to let me chat with people without also accepting them into my friends, a group which obviously has more permissions than strangers. ???
Also, also, I can't ever find a Discord server for something I'm interested in. I have to go to Reddit to find a thread containing a Discord link. ????? why
The worst thing is archival sites cant get them.
Also Redditors: "Hmmm I wonder why no women's spaces are thriving on Lemmy."
I like the sentiment of this post but let's not forget that the buff, cool fedi users also seemingly downvoted women-oriented communities out of existence here. Not even WitchesvsPatriarchy survived. And let's not forget that the reason downvotes are disabled on Blåhaj is because the buff, cool fedi users just couldn't help themselves with downvote brigading there too.
I'm saying this as a simple user that just wants a platform to exist on, I don't think most people give a shit who owns or is running the platform as long as it seems like a place where they'll have a good time. Users make the platform, not anything else. So when people are shopping around for their next social media space, they're looking more at what the users are posting and doing than the infrastructure or CEO.
To this day I haven't tried Discord beyond a single conversation I was having with someone I met on Reddit at one point. But maybe women feel more at home there and maybe there's more cool stuff for random users to look at there right now. And it's probably just that simple.
Technical specifications aren't going to be winning more users. Content is.
You were not here during the "man or bear" discussions. Those did not paint the platform in a good light
I honestly found the overall temperature of the room pretty comforting, but maybe I was just cherry picking?
Omg, I can just imagine and I'm glad that I wasn't here. Probably wouldn't have been able to keep my mouth shut and would probably be banned from a bunch of places by now. Especially world communities, I get the impression those moderators would've been very busy making sure no men's feelings were hurt.
It makes me think that there's a lot more teens and early 20 somethings on this platform than I thought. Because on Reddit, the majority of the "man or bear" stuff that I saw was through screenshots in feminist subs. And I got the impression that the people who were freaking out the most about it were teenagers and grown men that can't think for themselves who treat the words of people like Rogan as gospel. And I don't see too many Rogan fans around here.
Honestly, now that I think about it, that would make sense and explain a couple of little annoyances I've had here on this platform.
Not sure about the age demographics to be honest, I would think the average person on Lemmy is closer to 30-40 than teenager or 20
Oof. There goes that theory then lol. And yeah, I did originally get the impression based on my first couple of proper interactions here that it was an older crowd. Although honestly, it's extremely hard to tell over text based communication. I think that often on these anonymous platforms, users just sort of assume that the person they're speaking to is in a similar demographic to them. Because you can't really detect age through a sentence or paragraph unless the person specifically brings up MS-DOS days or something. Our brains do a lot of filling in the gaps for us and that isn't always reliable.
I'd actually be interested to see some sort of census or poll here that can reveal these things. Although I half expect that a lot of users here would be like "Don't do the poll! They're trying to track you and harvest your data for evil! - sent from my iPhone".
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