alt Hacker NewsFuck discord. Another big for-profit platform that is swallowing big chunks of the internet. before discord there were lots of self-organized forums with their own communities and rules. Now I need to register with some big overlord and download their shitty app just to read what has before been just an URL away?
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Nah. Right in the browser works great: discord.com/app
You’re going to keep running into a wall thinking of discord like a forum replacement; It’s designed to be an IRC replacement.
The invitation system intentionally creates some privacy so you can build a sense of enclosed community around them, and so you have some control over who sees what. Not having your conversations on full automatic blast to the public is a feature.
But you can enjoy it before enshittification arrives!
All praise our VC overlords.
> before discord there were lots of self-organized forums with their own communities and rules.
And running them was awful and drove the people who did it insane, mostly because you had to fight spambots.