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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago (10 children)

the dark thing about this is that they will continue to retain the critical mass of users and they know it

That's what many social media companies have said, lol.

But the sad thing is many communities will (and already have) move to Discord. Which is even worse, as Discord is a siloed information black hole.

[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I still don't know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn't work at all the same way and search sucks.

[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Exactly instead of a bunch of publicly searchable information silos we have a whole bunch of fragmented private ones with absolutely no overlap and far less useful. We need a publicly funded site of some kind.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're not private. Advertisers have full access and that's what actually matters.

[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I meant from people like you and me that are Googling an obscure topic or researching something or troubleshooting information, those things are disappearing behind the walls of Discord

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