Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits

nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it

  That’s what many social media companies have said, lol.

  But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.

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  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still don’t know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn’t work at all the same way and search sucks.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yah, I don’t get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it’s not like it’s going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It’s utterly bizarre.

      If you’re running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The one thing Discord is good at is engagement, aka pinging people on their phones, repeating conversations that have been answered a million times, getting people drawn into rambling discussions…

        Yeah it’s kind of a nightmare lol.

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    • Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly instead of a bunch of publicly searchable information silos we have a whole bunch of fragmented private ones with absolutely no overlap and far less useful. We need a publicly funded site of some kind.

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      • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re not private. Advertisers have full access and that’s what actually matters.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the most popular obvious alternative, simple as that. There’s (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Discord is such a piece of fucking shit

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m getting closed to hosting an XMPP server and getting the fuck off discord. They can rot in hell

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• AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The future?

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The present, but also the future, too.

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    • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t forget the past

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think we agree, the past is over.

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