Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing

• lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s still information. I agree that it should be available publically, but information available to few is still more than information available to none. I agree that you shouldn’t have to join a Discord server to get that information, but eliminating it entirely so that not even those who do join can access it doesn’t help anybody. It would only hurt a few, but a few is still more than zero.

  It’s an issue of culture, so simply eliminating one repository doesn’t fix anything. They’d find some other messaging service to congregate on.

  That’s not to say Discord are saints and there is nothing wrong with either their business or their platform. That is a separate issue I think we all agree on.

  My point is strictly about the hypothetical deletion of Discord over the drift towards opaque information silos: It won’t help.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    information available to few is still more than information available to none

    If discord didnt exist, that information would just be elsewhere like proper forums, it doesnt disappear magically.

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, you have one part right: it won’t disappear magically. If it does, it will do so quite naturally, unless someone actively preserves it, e.g. by archiving the chat histories.

      Of course, you might mean the people with the knowledge that wrote those histories in the first place. You know, the people that used Discord instead of forums. The people that left forums. The people that apparently didn’t want to use forums.

      Why would you assume they’d move to forums? Clearly there was some reason they chose to use Discord, so why wouldn’t they just find a replacement?

      Discord isn’t the issue. I mean, Discord has plenty of issues, but this particular one is a cultural one. Unless we find a way to entice people back to forums (or some other publically indexable platform), they’ll just keep going elsewhere.

      So maybe instead of condemning Discord we should ask “Why do people prefer it?” Then we can figure out how to address that and actually do something about the root of the issue.

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• bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe the search engines should start crawling and indexing discord

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Discord blocks all attempts at crawling their “public” servers

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    😐

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