Discord for large communities is dumb as shit. There's literally too many people that real communication becomes impossible unless you move to DMs or an empty room.

[+] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

or interesting convos have a mod chime in and ruin it

"hey guys can we move this conversation to x-chat"

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

God I can't stand servers that are Nazis for that. Guess what...natural conversation will change topics over time. I'm sorry I can't keep up which of your 100 channels I need to jarringly break away from the convo and hop into whenever the topic even remotely, slightly drifts from what it started with. Discord channel Nazis don't understand how human conversation works.

[–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Right and when you step back and think about it, why create a conversation system that demands so much admin for moderators? A reddit-like system obviously still desperately needs good human moderation but the moment to moment guidance of conversation focus doesn’t require a human mod to always interject to refocus things, just an engaged and genuine audience.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

or or how about guilded? no? mabye revolt? no agian? element? wait what XMPP?!?!! are you sure that haS group chat? ok....

[–] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

I love discord for small communities, not that I have to many. But friend groups, and niche topics. Places where the chat generally is a single discussion or two at a single point in time. And the voice chat is superb. Just drop in and out is convenient.

But it sure as fuck doesn't compete with what reddit and Lemmy is doing.

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I spend a lot of time in the r/furry discord server

It's a wonderful place to just chat. Imo, discord is fine as a chatroom

[–] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

yikes

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

so. much. this.

Discord is just an AOL chat room. Great for short-term conversations among 20 or fewer people. It's not a good place to store your FAQ. It's not a good place for large teams. It's not a good place for anything searchable. It's transactional. And I don't know why people treat it otherwise.