One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord

I’m glad they’re leaving the old site, but Discord serves different purposes and isn’t a replacement. I’d recommend they start a Lemmy community.

Discord is great for real time chat, but really bad for threaded conversation which was what Reddit was good at. Didn't anybody mention the Fediverse and Lemmy/kbin to them?

Discord is VERY different from link/thread aggregators/forums such as Reddit and Lemmy. I just don't understand subreddits that move to Discord.

/r/buildapcsales/ has an official Discord server now, and it just sucks compared to Reddit's format.

Also, Discord doesn't show up in search results for if people are trying to find an answer for something. And the search in the Discord servers sucks for this kind of thing as well.

Elaborating on /r/buildapcsales specifically with earlier comment:

Using the search in the subreddit lets you see what the price is usually on sale at, and around what time of year. Sometimes the current sale isn’t worth buying. People would comment in the threads mentioning that.

You can also read everyone’s comments on that specific product in either the current thread or the old ones to see if it’s worth buying or not for yourself.

Do note that a lot of these have 30-100 comments that are helpful for users to read.

Discord prevented 3rd party clients before it was cool.

If the objective is to avoid being forced to accept changes to software you use.. why choose another person with the same power over you rather than free software?

I personally just don't get Discord and find it very annoying when it's the only means to communicate about something. And it certainly doesn't feel like a good replacement for Reddit due to the many reasons mentioned in this thread.

How tf does that make sense?

Hot take but this is worse than them just staying on Reddit.

Because everyone knows that live chat rooms are exactly like message forums with content that can be voted up and down.

Discord is terrible for being able to go back and see shared knowledge.

Discord is not an appropriate replacement for Reddit.People are only saying it is because it's popular.

from bad to worse

Protesting a walled garden blocking third party apps, by moving to a walled garden that never allowed third party apps, is one of the stupidest things I've seen on reddit.

Not only is Discord a bad replacement for Reddit, it is another monolithic platform struggling to find a business model. The enshitification of Discord is real, and is going to get worse.

Haha. Why though? What's the point?

Out of the frying pan into the fire I guess.

We need a way to mirror Discord to the web so it can be searched.

Moving from one company that monetizes you to another. Not the brightest idea.

Huh, literally never seen that sub in the 5 years I was on Reddit that I can recall

Ugh, I don't know why but I find Discord incredibly confusing to use. I've joined plenty of different communities for game mods and android development and I can never find anything that I'm looking for. The UI is so busy and anything useful that gets posted is quicky pushed out of the way for comments. I really don't understand how a reddit community would be able to move there in the first place.

From one platform they don't control to another platform they don't control. See you in a while when Discord pulls some bullshit and everyone will be looking for an alternative to the alternative.

I have never heard of that sub, and I frequently visited r/all to be honest.

Personally I feel like Discord is more like a chat app than a 'forum' in a way like Reddit and Lemmy are.

May as well leave Reddit for IRC. Completely different purposes. Shame.

I don't understand why moving to discord is a thing when we have Lemmy serving the exact same purpose as reddit but even better.

Second post of this I've seen in a couple days so I was curious and joined it. It's very active and I'm going in thinking that it is a good move. Active conversations suits fashion advice IMO.

Here's a link in case you're curious: https://discord.gg/Z7mACcrfJV

Edit: I like it.

While it's not ideal for most subreddits, I do get why they do this in general. A lot of subreddits prior to the API protests already had a Discord server where the community would congregate. I was already in r/deadmau5's Discord server during the COVID pandemic, and it used to be the official Discord for electronic musician deadmau5 and his label to the point where he and his label signees would actually talk in there. That was changed after his management decided to try integrating crypto/NFT shit into it which the owner of the server disagreed with, but the point still stands.

wat

Is there a solid lemmy community for MFA?

I'll just drop this here: !buildapcsales@lemmy.ml

Don't you get paid per views on Substack?

I saw yesterday that /r/hardwareswap has stopped using Reddit and moved to Discord, makes sense since they used the API a bit for confirmed trades and the likes.

haha - male fashion advise is one of reddit's biggest communities?