• biofaust@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone explain to me why do people use Discord?

    I find it incredibly chaotic, there are no user-friendly threads and therefore they are not used. Also there is no good introduction to the different channel templates one may encounter, leaving at least me wondering what is the best way to interact with people.

    I hate Salesforce as much as the next guy, but Slack is immensely superior.

    I know about the good audio thing, but I saw it seldomly used in the servers I was in before I deleted my account, so I don’t think that’s really the determining factor.

    • Nima@leminal.space
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      1 year ago

      I have several communities I run. one has a large number of active users.

      if I wanted to pick up and move the whole community to another platform, everyone would have to come at once.

      the people in my servers are also in other communities. they won’t just up and leave discord for one community. and I’m not interested in destroying the place a lot of these people call home unless I can get a majority of people to move all at once.

      do you know how impossible that is? in order for discord to truly die (which btw I hope for. heavily), it would actually have to die. like meaning a MASS exodus where everyone is abandoning the platform in droves.

      but its the only place certain communities that I use exist. its more complicated than “Discord bad don’t use.” I wish I didn’t have to. but its where literally 95% of all my friends are.

      • GuardYaGrill@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        they won’t just up and leave discord for one community. and I’m not interested in destroying the place a lot of these people call home

        Discord to your “home”: