At least Reddit is structured to be public and searchable (or at least it used to be).
Discord is annoying for a bazillion reasons, but a big one is it’s ostensibly a ‘close friends gamer chat’ platform, yet its taken the role of project support chat, niche topic forums, ‘influencer’ chat rooms, and things that should absolutely be public facing.
…Another, I guess, is political discourse.
In other words, Discord the company is having their cake and eating it; pretending they’re an innocent ‘between friends’ private chat platform while absolutely structuring it to encourage scams, mega communities with notification spam, patreon-like benefit tiers, and weird stuff that absolutely seeds recruitment for, and engagement on, extremist channels.
At least Reddit is structured to be public and searchable (or at least it used to be).
Discord is annoying for a bazillion reasons, but a big one is it’s ostensibly a ‘close friends gamer chat’ platform, yet its taken the role of project support chat, niche topic forums, ‘influencer’ chat rooms, and things that should absolutely be public facing.
…Another, I guess, is political discourse.
In other words, Discord the company is having their cake and eating it; pretending they’re an innocent ‘between friends’ private chat platform while absolutely structuring it to encourage scams, mega communities with notification spam, patreon-like benefit tiers, and weird stuff that absolutely seeds recruitment for, and engagement on, extremist channels.