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?
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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).
I agree. I dont get why people use things like discord or slack to discuss stuff especially with lots of users.
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.
r/malefashionadvice
Saved you a click.
!malefashionadvice@lemmy.world
Keeping everything joined up.
discord literally having a concurrent controversy (the name change); and they feel it good to go there?
besides. discord is useless as a reddit replacement. discord is not indexed and you cannot retrieve the data publicly; much like facebook groups which would be the same thing. i mean; who doesn't (or didn't) use +reddit in their google searches for the past 2 years?
discord has also been bleeding users lately.
and, it's another corporation. worse than reddit. with a poor track record.
but sure! let's move to there! sounds brilliant! i'm sure all will be well!
...what's next, facebook groups?
Facebook groups, for their many failings are still miles better than discord tbh
Yeah, even if searching content is atrocious, and it focuses on the latest posts by design (like reddit) so you have the same questions posted multiple times a day. And the tool doesn't even support the goal of the users. It's still a more appropriate tool than discord. Plus, it has the userbase.