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Reddit takes over one of the biggest protesting subreddits (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Chipthemonk@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why didn’t these mods suggest Lemmy/Kbin instead of Discord? I don’t get the appeal of Discord. Why would you want to be in a massive chat room with a bunch of strangers?

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

A lot of users push for Discord. Very few (comparatively) push for Lemmy/Kbin.

I was a mod of a 500k+ subreddit. We wound up basically being forced to make a Discord a few years ago because users wanted one so badly. It wound up becoming more active than the actual subreddit itself, and has a bigger mod team (most of whom aren't even mods on the subreddit, just Discord).

[–] vamp07@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I agree. I dont get why people use things like discord or slack to discuss stuff especially with lots of users.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's interesting that they say:

Now, based on the Reddark tracker, the biggest subreddit still private is r/streetwear. According to Zach, who told me last week that he is also a mod of that community, it has more than 4 million subscribers. The subreddit also has a Discord.

When there's even !streetwear@lemmy.world although I note they try and redirect people on here over to Discord. All seems odd.

edit: also note there is a !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world to soak up refugees.