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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.
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While it’s not ideal for most subreddits, I do get why they do this in general. A lot of subreddits prior to the API protests already had a Discord server where the community would congregate. I was already in r/deadmau5’s Discord server during the COVID pandemic, and it used to be the official Discord for electronic musician deadmau5 and his label to the point where he and his label signees would actually talk in there. That was changed after his management decided to try integrating crypto/NFT shit into it which the owner of the server disagreed with, but the point still stands.
Huh, literally never seen that sub in the 5 years I was on Reddit that I can recall
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.
Discord is terrible for being able to go back and see shared knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
Is there a solid lemmy community for MFA?
Considering the numerous comments I’ve read in the last few days saying something along the lines of, “What!? Cargo shorts are out of style? I’m never giving up my cargo pockets!”
I’m guessing that currently there isn’t a lot of overlap between those two communities. But I’m hopeful that a MFA and a Frugal MFA take root here soon!
Cargo shorts are back in style since last year by the way. Part of the general Nineties revival.
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.
move to Discord
Why not Zoid … i mean Lemmy or Kbin?
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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.
Not only is Discord a bad replacement for Reddit, it is another monolithic platform struggling to find a business model. The enshitification of Discord is real, and is going to get worse.
I disagree. Discord is one of the only non-federated social platforms resisting enshittification.
Back at the very beginning they said that any monetization they offered would be optional add-on purchases (not ads) and that those add-one would never involve removing the existing core features to sell them back.
Almost a decade later and they haven’t show any indications of straying from that promise.
Discord is an acquisition away from enshitification, and they have primed there moderation to make it possible. Source: Ive host a server for 3 years.
I’m not sure what your point is… I said they have resisted so far, not that they would be immune forever. OP implied that they already had problems, and nothing you’ve said contradicts anything I said. Source: I’ve been hosting multiple servers for over 8 years.
Resisting enshittification seems a bit stretched, just a few weeks ago they made the username case worst by going back to traditional unique usernames instead of discriminators allowing anyone to have the username they want. They also tend to change the whole UI/UX every few weeks it seems, 2-3 months ago, swiping would reply to a message instead of opening the members list, etc. I’m still using it to keep in touch with friends and school, but I would ditch it in an instant if I could.
I agree with the username change and I wish they had changed it earlier. If you’ve ever tried adding friends on using the old names, you would know how painful it was and how much better having a “normal” username is.
Anyway, whether or not you think those are “good” changes, I find it hard to argue that those specific changes could somehow be interpreted as driving shareholder value at the expense of users.
I’ve used Discord since 2016, never really had issues with discriminators but I can understand how someone new to this concept can have a hard time to grasp how it works. I think Discord could have explained it better instead of removing it.
Fair enough, I saw enshittification not only as driving shareholders value but also the user experience. Discord keeps making questionables UI/UX changes. I’ve found less enjoyment using the app the past years.
It’s not just about understanding, it’s about being harder to remember. Can you honestly say you remember what your discriminator was without having to look it up?
And even if so, do you really expect that most people would remember it without having to look it up?
The reality is that most people aren’t going to remember a 4-digit number that they didn’t pick.
I have to add people every week and never had a single person that knew their number. If it wasn’t for the “nearby scan” feature, I imagine a lot of those people would have just said “fuck it,“ because looking up the number is so annoying.
But people are used to remembering a username they chose, especially if they can reuse the same one (or two) in multiple places.
I’ve never really though about this aspect, it’s been easy for me but that doesn’t mean it is for everyone. Most people I added over the years where already on Discord so it was as simple as clicking the invite button. Never had much trouble IRL too because they were pretty active on Discord and knew their discriminator, or I would simply give mine.
Even if I’m still a bit sour about the change, I can totally see why it would be easier for most people.
Anyway, my initial comment wasn’t to bash you or anything. Clearly, my exemples weren’t the best. I now have better outlook on this username change. Thanks! 🫠
Yes, but they are already shoving those paid features in your face. It is only a matter of time.
I got a bar all last week at the top of Discord for a free trial of something else. That sounds like enshittification to me.
I saw yesterday that /r/hardwareswap has stopped using Reddit and moved to Discord, makes sense since they used the API a bit for confirmed trades and the likes.
May as well leave Reddit for IRC. Completely different purposes. Shame.
IRC was a lot of fun back in the day. The other day I jumped on undernet using a web portal. Oh yeah there were people there but it was quiet as could be. I jumped around a couple channels like my old hangout #Florida and nothing. I may try again another day.
I clung to IRC as long as I could, but it basically became a troll haven for the last 4 people in the channel, just all trolling each other. I had such good, deep conversations on IRC once upon a time. And in a way that can’t be replicated in this era.
Moving from one company that monetizes you to another. Not the brightest idea.
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I don’t understand why some are migrating to discord, it is not a reddit alternative in any way shape or form
