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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restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoI 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.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 1 month ago
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They’re not private. Advertisers have full access and that’s what actually matters.
Veneroso@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I meant from people like you and me that are Googling an obscure topic or researching something or troubleshooting information, those things are disappearing behind the walls of Discord
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s the most popular obvious alternative, simple as that. There’s (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month 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.