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One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord (www.theverge.com)
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One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.

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[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 150 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I actually hate that forums are being abandoned in favor of Discord. Especially since a lot of the moves are for tech support. Discord serves an entirely different function than a forum. A forum is for someone 10 years ago to ask a question, get it answered, and then have that question pop up as a search result for the next decade whenever others have the same question. You didn’t need to create an account and start your own thread to get your question answered. You just googled it and found it.

Discord acting as a replacement simply means that people constantly ask the same “how do I [x]” questions all day every day. It’s exhausting because every single question needs to be answered with it’s own reply, instead of simply having the answer ready to go as soon as the user googles it.

I get it. You’re a startup tech company. You don’t want to pay for server space for a forum. And Discord is free, so you might as well just start a server there. But that means your admins/mods are going to spend all day responding to every single “how do I update”, when it could simply be a google search instead.

[–] r3xus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The new generation of Internet users simply does not search. Watch this exasperating behaviour grow exponentially with all the AI bots, GPT whatnots and LLM shenanigans.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Zoomers overall can’t use computers, they grew up with phones and apps. Everything has to be handed to them in a closed off environment.

[–] Silviecat44@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is very broad and does not apply to all people. You should be more considerate before generalising an entire generation of people

[–] sputtersalt@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps that's why they said

Zoomers overall

Also not sure what's so inconsiderate about their comment. I feel like it's pretty widely accepted that zoomers generally don't have the same tech problem-solving skills that many gen x/y people do. No one's claiming they're dumb. It's a byproduct of growing up with tech that has been designed for simplicity and ease of use.

[–] Silviecat44@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apologies. I may have misinterpreted the meaning behind the comment

[–] hypnotoad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Revanced did this and it's infuriating. I just hop in once in a while and ask the same dumb question because I can't be arsed to scroll up 200 posts to find the answer; just to underscore this point.