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The Autistic Soul of the Internet Has Been at Death’s Door for Years. Its End May Finally Be Here. (slate.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Not a single mention of discord despite it being a haven for neurodivergent people... I know the article is mainly about forums but IRC-style chats are very very closely related to forums.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Reddit/Lemmy is more akin to a forum than discord.
Discord is more like a fusion of Teamspeak (VoIP) and a chat and a bolted on forum system.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Yep that's why I wrote the whole second part of my comment thanks

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate discord as a social network. The only thing I use it for is my weekly TTRPG group and messaging them. I can't understand how people enjoy using it as a place to just... Browse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The people who like discord, don't. At least I don't.

Discord for me is a place for small and medium-big groups. A place, not like social media, but like IRC. A place to make friends and get to know other people. And I have met tons of new people there! A lot of the people that are close to me now I have originally met through discord.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Maybe it's because I wasn't around for IRC, but I really don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I despise Discord. It's an information black hole. Everything is closed off, unindexible, unscrapable, borderline unsearchable. If someone posts something useful on Discord, good luck finding it after a few months, let alone a few years. Meanwhile, I can find forum posts with useful info from over a decade ago. If Discord the company dies, everything on the platform dies with it. There's no internet archive for Discord.

It has a place as a chat app, but its use goes far beyond that. Some subreddits used it as a Reddit replacement, companies use it for tech support, and entire apps are built around it (eg. MidJourney).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I despise Discord for being centralized and spying on people. And sometimes holding people's accounts hostage until they dox themselves.

I much prefer IRC and XMPP. Light, selfhostable and not obeying by some single big company's rules. And Mumble for voice calls.