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As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Ask a question, receive an immediate response. It's better than reddit in many regards.

[-] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's also unsearchable from any search engine, becoming a black hole for information etc... Unfortunately

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not true. You search the discord server you want to join, follow the invite link, and boom, you're in the server. Start talking to people, ask the community questions, and receive immediate response. If it's not what you're looking for, it's easy to leave the server. Reddit isn't popular solely because it's posts appear on google search results.

[-] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not just talking about popularity. To be frank, communities moving to discord is a problem imo. Discoverability is, frankly, garbage. Information provided by others users cannot easily be found at a later date, and even then YOU DONT KNOW where the information you might want could be. If I want information on an old game for instance, on a reddit or Lemmy like platform searching for the game would yield a result, on discord I'd first have to find out which communities exist and then search each one separately, filter out the garbage (Discord conversation is a lot harder to parse and a lot less information dense than Lemmy or reddit)... This leads to having to ask again, old information might be lost and much time is wasted, both for the person asking the question and the ones answering, for no benefit. Hope you can see my perspective here

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