• worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I see a lot of things that have a discord community.

    Why is this? Is it a way for someone. To earn extra money? Or do they just like that platform?

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      1 year ago

      Discord is easy to setup and use. It’s basically a chatroom with history. It can help build a community. It’s also a horrible way to store/archive information because it focuses on real-time communication. At larger scale it also tends to get too noisy.

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      1 year ago

      Lots of users gush over Discord for some reason. My impression is that more technically minded people don’t really like it, but your average user uses it for almost everything and encourages more services they like to use it. Hence why many reddit subs moved to Discord - the mods didn’t necessarily prefer it, but they were sent an overwhelming number of requests from their users.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the heads up, i guess I just a bit too old to have been part of the discord group.

        In the country where I live, it’s all Facebook messenger. It’s a shame as o think a number of people don’t really care for it, but everyone and every business uses it so we are kind stuck.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah I mean I don’t understand it either. Telegram is bad enough for me, can’t be assed with Discord.