Fediverse

Not just ultra niche, I’d say. League of Comics Geeks is an amazing site for comic book discussion. Board Game Geek has very active forums. I guess what both of those have in common is that they integrate collections and metadata with discussion.

Lemmy communities are basically forums. So let's post and interact more here. :)

Quit whining about it and make a good community outside of those.

Be a good community member yourself.

Nice. Be the change you wanna see!

I see myself coming less and less to Lemmy due to how monotopic this place is. And how aggressively stupid people here can be.

What happened to "quit whining"?

Consider joining a different server, .ml is blocked by a lot of other servers.

quit whining tho?

Oh thank the gods. I was worried I didn't grasp some basic modern internet concept, because I couldn't understand why people misuse Discord as a forum. Thanks to this thread i feel vindicated.

You need to think of why people would choose to use it for creating a forum. It's comically easy to set up. Making a server (their terminology, blame Discord, not me) just takes a couple of clicks.

It’s because they are blocking off their communities through paywalls or a means to feed them advertising. Everyone is an idiot for using discord for support. Imagine being a company and thinking answering the same stupid questions 100x a day instead of having a damn FAQ on a website is efficient and makes sense. Lost their damned minds. I’ll die on the hill that discord is stupid to use for anything but gaming and casual conversations and the people funneling their fan base or userbase to discord are assholes.

Yep.

Discord is a black hole where information goes to die.

Its not indexable, its not searchable, If you are having a problem you will never find it via conventional means.

and the second the discord shuts down, all the information is gone forever.

Discord is not a tech support platform. it is not a information storage platform.

it is a communication platform.

and far, far to many organizations use it for tech support and information storage. To the detriment of everyone... even themselves.

Because people don't want to have to join special services just to find out why their piece of software doesnt work.

why anyone would use it as a forum

That's what I also would like to know. It's such a bad platform for it.

I fucking hate telegram as a news/information source.

I've been saying it for years. People should have stuck with usenet.

Let's hope so