• Zeon@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      There is FOSS alternatives out there like Revolt or just plain old IRC which is good enough imo. The Discord bullshit is so annoying.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        All chat programs are shit for long term accumulation of knowledge. Discord, revolt, IRC, they’re all just as bad for it.

        Forums are where you’ll find people who are actual experts discussing because they want to be able to easily reference previous posts by other people.

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            9 months ago

            Lemmy/Reddit style platforms are good at generating short term discussions, it’s threaded chats.

            The main features that makes forums the best to accumulate knowledge is bumping and linear discussions. There’s only one discussion that everyone is following if they want to talk about a specific subject, the knowledge on that subject is centralized and keeps accumulating instead of requiring to be constantly repeated because the previous thread is lost to time. The linear discussion means you don’t have to go back up and start reading a different branch to know what some other people are talking about (which often times leads to having many people basically saying the same thing without realizing it), all new replies appear in chronological order and people quote others to provide context when necessary.

            Look on old school forums for more “boomer hobbies” and it’s ridiculous how long conversations can keep going. I provided a link in another reply but the Yamaha WR250 thread on ADVRider has 428k replies since 2013, all that is possible to know about this motorcycle is in they thread and pretty much any question you might have will have its reply in there. There’s car forums with discussions that have been ongoing for decadeS!

            Meanwhile on Reddit of you want to ask a question in a thread that was started 24h ago you’re shit out of luck, no one but the OP will know about it. On Lemmy? Everyone sorts by top 6 hours.

  • DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 months ago

    Yes, this exactly! I still cannot fathom how Discord took off. It offers literally no advantages over forums, and introduces some massive disadvantages.