One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.

  • @gunpachi@lemmy.world
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    52 years ago

    I don’t understand why moving to discord is a thing when we have Lemmy serving the exact same purpose as reddit but even better.

  • @RobotToaster@infosec.pub
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    212 years ago

    Protesting a walled garden blocking third party apps, by moving to a walled garden that never allowed third party apps, is one of the stupidest things I’ve seen on reddit.

    • @NightOwl@lemmy.one
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      42 years ago

      I’d also like to mention meta too with how some instances have been open to hearing them out. It’s like people went and deleted their reddit content because they didn’t want to add value to the reddit platform for people to find through search engines and interact with, but then they are fine with provoding content that can be engaged with for Zuckerberg over Spez? Call me crazy but Reddit is still way better and preferable to providing content for their userbase to interact with than Meta.

  • @rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
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    1242 years ago

    Discord is great for real time chat, but really bad for threaded conversation which was what Reddit was good at. Didn’t anybody mention the Fediverse and Lemmy/kbin to them?

    • ultratiem
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      182 years ago

      Yeah def not a good replacement for micro blogging. It’s almost impossible to catch up Discord even with slow mode on.

      I find Lemmy cool. Hope more people leave Reddit for it and we can rebuild a decentralized place no one company can control.

    • Flying Squid
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      22 years ago

      I’m on a Discord where people thread conversations and it drives me nuts. There are other reasons I’m there, but I’ve been tempted to leave over it.

    • @Toribor@corndog.uk
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      42 years ago

      It’s going to be really difficult to get most people used to the idea of decentralized federated services.

      • @GenEcon@lemm.ee
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        142 years ago

        Thats not the problem. The problem is the usability. Making an account? Finding different communities? Find the right app? Everything really difficult. Thats the problem.

        • funkless
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          62 years ago

          I’m fairly techy myself, not the most techy but I can admin a Salesforce instance, write a wordpress plugin from scratch, I can get by in React…

          I’ve found migrating from reddit to lemmy frustrating. I still don’t know if I’m doing it “right”. Ive not subscribed to anything, nor tried to track down my old communities on here because it all just seems tedious and needlessly complicated.

          Threads is winning over Mastodon because you click a button and it’s Twitter but a different color.

    • @DrQuint@lemmy.world
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      Plus, I’ve seen communities try this during the blackout. I didn’t see the outcome for other communities, but on/r/Dota2 at least, people despised the suggestion because the discord already had an establish culture and that culture was basically shit.

      So you were told to go take your activity and do it in a place of a different format, with different levels of topic focus, on a more personal level, in a place where you’re basically an outsider butting in and the people there don’t even really share an interest in discussing what you want (which was at the time a big tournament).

      That’s an astronomically terrible idea. And the worst part, not just did we have THIS website, we also had other forums (even the steam forum). I dunno what reddit mods have to be smoking to willfully ignore those in favor of a chatroom.

      • Manu
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        12 years ago

        I‘ll bet you a $100 (not really) they are mods on discord as well and their urge to keep control over the community is the real driver for them.

        • @markr@lemmy.world
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          12 years ago

          So they could start their own community here or magazine on kbin and be the mods of that.

    • The Quuuuuill
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      32 years ago

      Indexing it is hard to impossible, too. Collective knowledge does not truly get retained

  • @tabular@lemmy.world
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    972 years ago

    Discord prevented 3rd party clients before it was cool.

    If the objective is to avoid being forced to accept changes to software you use… why choose another person with the same power over you rather than free software?

      • @claudiop@lemmy.world
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        72 years ago

        Isn’t it? It somewhat-works in the browser but you don’t get proper noise cancellation there nor quite some other features. Their native client is using an ancient version of Electron that, at least on Linux, leaves a lot to be desired. No audio-share, no proper Wayland support, no High-dpi.

        There are quite a few amateur GitHub projects with patches and repacks to show how things should be done.

        If a client is only good on Windows, then it is not that good. Remember Skype?

        • @cyberpunk007@lemmy.world
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          12 years ago

          I game on Linux and discord worked fine for me. Anyways this isn’t really an apples to apples comparison. The reddit client crashes a lot and injects ads in the feed and lacks all the nice stuff of 3rd party clients.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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        02 years ago

        I was on discord for 3 days. It was awful. A dumpster fire is, by my definition, still hot trash.

          • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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            12 years ago

            That’s fair. I used the mobile app, so this may differ for any other user access points. It kept trying to read data that I have already denied, like location and access to sms as two examples. It also kept crashing at odd places. I’m sure there was a pattern, but I didn’t stay long enough to extrapolate it. Now, I know that the network is useful. However, at least at the time, the app was garbage and I had had enough of the leaks (as per my firewall) it was causing on top of the already privacy invasive defaults. I don’t shame anyone for using it, nor do I think it’s “the devil” or whatever. However, I do think the UI for the mobile user at the time was absolutely unacceptable as the official app, and the fact that the mobile web page almost forced you onto the broken app was also unacceptable. As I only ever used it for one community, I didn’t spend much time to find an alternative (if one even exists), and maybe that part’s on me.

    • @provomeister@lemmy.ca
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      362 years ago

      Same story with Twitter users going to Meta’s Threads instead of Mastodon. Most people don’t see privacy online as an important matter because it’s non-tangible for them. They go with the “safe/popular” option only for the story to repeat itself later…

    • @jcg@halubilo.social
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      202 years ago

      Because nobody really cares about free as in freedom. Speaking in hyperbole, of course, but you step outside of our tech savvy bubble for just a moment and it feels that way very quickly. As far as they’re concerned, Facebook is free. Threads is free. Switching from twitter to threads is just switching from one shitty free thing to another free thing that they think will be less shitty. Of course it’s less shitty now, they want users. Mastodon? Pleroma? Seems kinda confusing, what’s a server? Is FB a big server? Yeah… Free software alternatives have some PR problems to overcome at the moment. Now if there could be a new thing, a killer app, that was free? That would be insane.

    • trainsaresexy
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      12 years ago

      I think it’s by number of people who signed up for your letter and read it. Then you can sell ad space in your newsletters.

  • Leo
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    122 years ago

    We need a way to mirror Discord to the web so it can be searched.

    • @Necromnomicon@lemmy.world
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      102 years ago

      Seriously. A firmware I use only really uses discord to communicate. It’s near impossible to find fixes for anything on there.

      • @NightOwl@lemmy.one
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        42 years ago

        Getting into keyboards then finding out that to find the source for firmware requires joining a Discord channel is so annoying. For those type of things wish there was a XDA forum equivalent for keyboards.

  • @OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world
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    2902 years ago

    I’m glad they’re leaving the old site, but Discord serves different purposes and isn’t a replacement. I’d recommend they start a Lemmy community.

    • @L3s@lemmy.worldM
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      282 years ago

      Thought the same when I was reading this, weird they wouldn’t migrate here, unless they are unaware of the Fediverse

      • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        242 years ago

        I must admit I’m quite surprised more subs that are closing shop these days aren’t at least attempting to move to Lemmy. It’s as if most of the mods are completely unaware of - or, for some unknown reason, are avoiding - the fediverse.

        • @Sc00ter@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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          182 years ago

          I had no idea this place existed until about 2 weeks ago. It’s really not common. Non of my friends have any idea what lemmy is when I tell them I quit reddit

          • @MisterMisanthropic@lemdit.com
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            42 years ago

            Same here.

            In addition, I think it might turn people away just a bit to have to explain instances and that it isn’t quite as simple as sign up and get at it.

            Not that it’s all that complicated. But, it definitely isn’t as straight-forward as Reddit is.

    • @Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
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      Yeah, I actually hate that forums are being abandoned in favor of Discord. Especially since a lot of the moves are for tech support. Discord serves an entirely different function than a forum. A forum is for someone 10 years ago to ask a question, get it answered, and then have that question pop up as a search result for the next decade whenever others have the same question. You didn’t need to create an account and start your own thread to get your question answered. You just googled it and found it.

      Discord acting as a replacement simply means that people constantly ask the same “how do I [x]” questions all day every day. It’s exhausting because every single question needs to be answered with it’s own reply, instead of simply having the answer ready to go as soon as the user googles it.

      I get it. You’re a startup tech company. You don’t want to pay for server space for a forum. And Discord is free, so you might as well just start a server there. But that means your admins/mods are going to spend all day responding to every single “how do I update”, when it could simply be a google search instead.

      • @hypnotoad@sh.itjust.works
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        142 years ago

        Revanced did this and it’s infuriating. I just hop in once in a while and ask the same dumb question because I can’t be arsed to scroll up 200 posts to find the answer; just to underscore this point.

        • @Gatsby@lemm.ee
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          So in your opinion, if I search discord for

          virsh # start win10-ts1-1507 error: Failed to start domain win10-ts1-1507 error: Cannot access storage file ‘/media/wenzel/OSWatcher/vms/win10-ts1-1507.qcow2’ (as uid:64055, gid:108): Permission denied

          How likely would I be to get someone with the same problem and a solution?

            • Concetta
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              172 years ago

              Wouldn’t it just be nuts if I could search multiple different discord servers at the same time? And it would show me a bunch of different results on the same screen? If only something would get invented.

              • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
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                52 years ago

                It would also be nice if you didn’t have to join a server to search within it – you could have a page that searches all servers and shows you results. Maybe one day…

        • クーイフ
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          22 years ago

          that you belong to

          This is the issue. You need to log in, and join the server in order to access this information. Idk if it is still true, but there was a limit to the number of people who could join these communities. Which further complicates access to this information.

          • @voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            Yeah, somehow people got the idea I was saying this was good or comparable to the Web. It definitely isn’t. Saying that there is no search is wrong, though.

            • クーイフ
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              12 years ago

              Fair. However, at least to me, the way you worded it seemed to be missing the point of the person you replied to. Yes, you can search a discord server, but they aren’t able to be indexed by search engines in the way that forums can which is what I believe was the point he was trying to get across.

      • @r3xus@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        The new generation of Internet users simply does not search. Watch this exasperating behaviour grow exponentially with all the AI bots, GPT whatnots and LLM shenanigans.

        • Quokka
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          372 years ago

          Zoomers overall can’t use computers, they grew up with phones and apps. Everything has to be handed to them in a closed off environment.

          • @Silviecat44@aussie.zone
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            62 years ago

            This is very broad and does not apply to all people. You should be more considerate before generalising an entire generation of people

            • salt
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              192 years ago

              Perhaps that’s why they said

              Zoomers overall

              Also not sure what’s so inconsiderate about their comment. I feel like it’s pretty widely accepted that zoomers generally don’t have the same tech problem-solving skills that many gen x/y people do. No one’s claiming they’re dumb. It’s a byproduct of growing up with tech that has been designed for simplicity and ease of use.

  • @salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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    I personally just don’t get Discord and find it very annoying when it’s the only means to communicate about something. And it certainly doesn’t feel like a good replacement for Reddit due to the many reasons mentioned in this thread.

    • @Docus@lemmy.world
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      52 years ago

      Same here. The sub is private now so i can’t check the members figure quoted in the article, but if correct, subredditstats.com puts it near the bottom of the top 100. So ‘one of the largest subs’ seems a bit of a stretch.

  • @PixelPassport@lemm.ee
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    82 years ago

    Ugh, I don’t know why but I find Discord incredibly confusing to use. I’ve joined plenty of different communities for game mods and android development and I can never find anything that I’m looking for. The UI is so busy and anything useful that gets posted is quicky pushed out of the way for comments. I really don’t understand how a reddit community would be able to move there in the first place.

    • @Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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      82 years ago

      Yeh discord is an absolute mess imo. As soon as there are any decent number of people it just becomes like a bloody twitch stream chat.

      It’s a chat app, not a forum or Reddit replacement. I wish people would stop suggesting it as one.

      • @jmp242@sopuli.xyz
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        62 years ago

        Discord is also at least 2 completely different experiences IME. If you’re in a niche server, it can sort of work like reddit with threads etc, because there’s like one reply every 30 minutes to a day or 3.

        If you’re in a busy community it’s clearly not at all like reddit, and is like all the huge chat rooms of the past and range from immediate interaction time waster to completely unusable for anything except watching text fly by.

  • @Im28xwa@lemdro.id
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    292 years ago

    I don’t understand why some are migrating to discord, it is not a reddit alternative in any way shape or form

  • @EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.world
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    72 years ago

    I have never heard of that sub, and I frequently visited r/all to be honest.

    Personally I feel like Discord is more like a chat app than a ‘forum’ in a way like Reddit and Lemmy are.