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so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by noodlejetski@kbin.social to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

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[–] Deestan@beehaw.org 83 points 1 year ago (15 children)

The day I don't see "join our Discord" where I would earlier expect to find "visit our forums" will be a good day.

A bloated live chat monolith is not what I want to use to discuss game bugs or podcast episodes.

[–] zerkrazus@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Agreed. Live chat has its place for certain things, but for other things a forum type interface is better suited.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, several groups of friends of mine are using Discord to chat and arrange roleplaying nights and such. I use those regularly. But I've got several "project" Discords that are forum replacements and I find I almost never go there. Certainly never when I don't have some specific goal I'm trying to fulfill.

[–] sailsperson@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know when they introduced it, but at some point, in some servers, I noticed a new channel type: forum. The fact that this is a thing is the greatest proof that Discord is not the end all, be all solution to communication.

Nothing is, really. One thing I really enjoyed about the 00s web was its diversity, because different things had different places and different formats, and the ever-lasting stakeholder grasp wasn't as successful at trying to put people in one place to show them ads and drive engagement to please the statistics gazers.

[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 1 year ago

The "forum" was introduced within the last year or so.

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