Yeah, I was waiting to get to the part where it recommends what doesn't suck to easily build up a community from zero. I suppose that the unfinished part.
The way I see it if/when Discord got really bad, individual communities would move elsewhere, the people are the community and unlike loosely coupled networks, a subreddit or Discord 'server' can act with a high degree of coordination.
It encourages the continued and expanding collective investment in it as a platform, as a location for information. We all know how this ends, and we would all rather that information be on a thousand different independently-owned Mattermost instances than on one worse-than-Reddit black hole.
Re:Using discord is morally lazy
by catlover76 on Sunday October 22, 2023 @01:53PM
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I agree that Discord is bad for the forum/community use-case that has become ubiquitous on there, but the fact that Discord has ended up getting frequently misused in place of forums is not really a reason to hate on Discord itself, and apparently we would not all rather have something more persistent than Discord for useful information--otherwise a bunch of communities wouldn't still be (mis)using Discord.
investment stuff - 500 employees making a product. It sounds like if investors putting in billions into the company are not doing their due-dilligence if your claim is true.
"not my server" - its like the word "module" in computer science. Server is a computer, or it's something listening on a port, or it's a waitress at a restaurant. Sounds like some words mean multiple things.
> I would argue that moreso than any other piece of infrastructure used by people, Discord has the highest potential to harm the world, and our perception of our place within it.
Waht? I'm actually very confused by this entirely.
I don't use Discord even though I play computer games, but your unfinished article should probably be re-written with actual logic.