•  bermuda   ( @bermuda@beehaw.org ) 
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • 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

    • 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).

      • 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.