• Eiri@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    It’s increasing taking up the role of one. And I’m sad about it.

    I might stop being sad if its forum features become more used and Discord massively improved discoverability, but for now it sucks for people googling problems.

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      2 months ago

      My rule of thumb is, if it says, “Join our Discord,” I move on. I’ll only join a Discord if I want to discuss something, not if I want answers to questions.

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        2 months ago

        Same here, except I won’t go on Discord for discussion either. I really loath the platform. I’d even go back on the dumpster fire that is Telegram before I go back to Discord. Good thing IRC still exists.

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          2 months ago

          I just look up YT videos or find a wiki, and 90% of the time I can find my answer that way. It’s a lot nicer than trying to figure out where they stuck something on Discord…

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      2 months ago

      On one hand we have to move away from Google. On the other hand information should be made available to people. Hopefully we are just in a transitional phase and this isn’t just reigning in a internet dark age.

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        2 months ago

        Well I said Google but ideally that would be “a healthy market of several competing quality search engines”.

        Right now I think we only have Google and Bing. (Lots of alternatives like DuckDuckGo ultimately use Google I think)