The Autistic Soul of the Internet Has Been at Death’s Door for Years. Its End May Finally Be Here.
The Autistic Soul of the Internet Has Been at Death’s Door for Years. Its End May Finally Be Here.
Blogs, forums, and sites like Twitter used to be a haven for people with autism. That internet is gone.
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Not a single mention of discord despite it being a haven for neurodivergent people... I know the article is mainly about forums but IRC-style chats are very very closely related to forums.
Reddit/Lemmy is more akin to a forum than discord.
Discord is more like a fusion of Teamspeak (VoIP) and a chat and a bolted on forum system.Yep that's why I wrote the whole second part of my comment thanks
I hate discord as a social network. The only thing I use it for is my weekly TTRPG group and messaging them. I can't understand how people enjoy using it as a place to just... Browse
The people who like discord, don't. At least I don't.
Discord for me is a place for small and medium-big groups. A place, not like social media, but like IRC. A place to make friends and get to know other people. And I have met tons of new people there! A lot of the people that are close to me now I have originally met through discord.
Maybe it's because I wasn't around for IRC, but I really don't get it.
I despise Discord. It's an information black hole. Everything is closed off, unindexible, unscrapable, borderline unsearchable. If someone posts something useful on Discord, good luck finding it after a few months, let alone a few years. Meanwhile, I can find forum posts with useful info from over a decade ago. If Discord the company dies, everything on the platform dies with it. There's no internet archive for Discord.
It has a place as a chat app, but its use goes far beyond that. Some subreddits used it as a Reddit replacement, companies use it for tech support, and entire apps are built around it (eg. MidJourney).
I despise Discord for being centralized and spying on people. And sometimes holding people's accounts hostage until they dox themselves.
I much prefer IRC and XMPP. Light, selfhostable and not obeying by some single big company's rules. And Mumble for voice calls.