• imnapr@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    We need to go back to pre-discord and bring back forums man. Don’t get me wrong, discord has its uses, all my friends use it, but discord killing forums and websites was really bad for the internet as a whole. Like look at dolphin, made before discord, it has its own website, its own forums. Hopefully if Nintendo does ever come after dolphin they’ll at least be able to keep the website and forums up.

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      8 months ago

      or, you know, lemmy? it’s not that much different from forum software, is browsable and federated

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      8 months ago

      Discord has no uses that isn’t already covered by other options, though. Their biggest feature is publicity.

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        8 months ago

        Karma is a net negative for actual community creation and meaningful discussion.

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            8 months ago

            I should add that it wasn’t the norm back then either.

            What’s kind of funny is that all of the debates around these systems are exactly the same today as back then, like for example that you should use the voting system to reward quality comments, not use it as an agree/disagree button.