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Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits (www.engadget.com)

submitted 3 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago (4 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 (3 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.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yah, I don't get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it's not like it's going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It's utterly bizarre.

If you're running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

The one thing Discord is good at is engagement, aka pinging people on their phones, repeating conversations that have been answered a million times, getting people drawn into rambling discussions...

Yeah it's kind of a nightmare lol.

[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 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

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's the most popular alternative, simple as that. There's (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Yeah as soon as I am directed to discord for anything , I move on with something else in life instead.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Discord is such a piece of fucking shit

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

I'm getting closed to hosting an XMPP server and getting the fuck off discord. They can rot in hell