Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoCompanies putting their stuff into discord is like all the businesses that ditched a dedicated website and moved to facebook however many years ago. Yay, now it is on a format that doesn’t work well for presenting static information and will inevitably require account registration!
mars@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Newest iteration of “this meeting could have been an email” has become “this Discord could have been a wiki”.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 5 weeks ago
wiki + ai search = discord reddit + google was once good, nowadays I click on the other results since the reddit reply is its already been answered use google
skytrim@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
And someone (on the Far-Right) is always trying to buy Wikipedia, monetise it, X-ify it, or take it down. I think Wikipedia is abusive - exploits volunteer unpaid labour - should have been created by an NGO like UN and kept safe for mankind like our Library of Alexandria. But it is what it is. Preppers download the whole site regularly in order to have that knowledge under their control in case is ever gets taken down or spoilt and they are rebuilding civilisation post-Armageddon. I keep meaning to download it myself (note to self: do that soon you lazy b. no more excuses!)
mars@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Take a look at Kiwix. Makes it super easy plus some ideas for a good Raspberry Pi project.