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Re:Why I Live in IRC (2015) by sho_hn on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:46PM (#39280340)
Counter-example experience: At some point I tried to find an active community to discuss Electrical Engineering. I sampled 8-9 Discords, and they were all dead and all had redundant #general and #offtopic channels.

##electronics on Libera otoh is highly active.

Discord sucks because it's way too fragmented and diluted.

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Re:Why I Live in IRC (2015) by lmm on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:38PM (#39281816)
Discord is fragmented and diluted because it's the only way to survive (other than by being small enough to be irrelevant, as IRC does). Using any social system that isn't fragmented and diluted for anything other than bland pleasantries carries too much risk of becoming today's "twitter main character".
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