Discord would be an extremely poor replacement for reddit. It sucks for asynchronous communication past a certain server size, it wasn't designed for that at all.

Nor is indexed or searchable in any meaningful sense even from within, let alone from outside e.g. search engines.

Discord's a perfectly fine service but this is absolutely not what it's for.

I don’t know how to use Discord efficiently/correctly. It feels like Reddit is following Twitter down the shitter. Would Discord be a viable interim news source? Until something else other than Threads comes along?

This narrative is driven by nerds, and something I've repeatedly noticed over the years is that nerds don't use social media in the same way as the rest of us. They use social media primarily as tools to create focused discussion forums. Most people aren't doing that - they're on social media to consume content, not so much to actually created that content or discuss it. This is why redditors hate Twitter so much, because while Twitter is (or was) a great tool for content consumption, it's a terrible one for having actual discussions.

Most people on reddit are here to just scroll and read things. When they hear Discord mooted as a reddit alternative, they immediately clock that as nonsense. But nerds simply see it as another place for them to host a discussion forum.

Perhaps it is not intended as “a replacement” but as a step in community-building? According to the “message from a Reddit admin (employee)” sent to volunteer moderators:^1

>>If you are interested in actively moderating this subreddit please reopen it and reply to this modmail within the next 3 days to outline your plans going forward.

>>If we do not hear back, we will remove your moderator status and form a new moderator team

In reply to this message, volunteer moderators say that they have been “actively monitoring and addressing content in its moderation queue and moderation messaging system.”

Disgusting. As a man of culture I exclusively sort by controversial.

I sorr by New time to time. What is the issue ?

first time i hear about this sub and i'm here on reddit for 12 years.. "one of reddits biggest communities"? yeahh. dunno.

This explains it. Nobody googles for fashion advice and reads a 10 years old post.

>**Aquaticulture**

>I was wondering why they wouldn't put the community in the title...

Who is “they”?

(And the community is named in the subtitle.)

>**Aquaticulture**

>/r/malefashionadvice is why

Why?

That's funny, I was LITERALLY looking for this sub right before this thread came up into my feed.

Lmaoooooooo. What will reddit do without its cash cow subreddit of thrift store shopping college sophomores?

I wouldn’t even use it as a holding place.

Good, /r/hardwareswap mods were fucking annoying. No, I don't want to move to Discord, I just want to sell a fucking GPU. If they don't want to moderate it anymore, they can leave and open it up to new mods.

Discord is fantastic.

It isn’t a reddit replacement though.

Lemmy or whatever is also not it.

>**sboger**

>r/malefashionadvice?!?!!?!?!? Are they fucking serious!??!!?!?

It is possible that the subreddit’s 5 million subscribers are missing opportunities to see ~~community~~ brand content.

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> If they are going to charge for 3rd party apps then we will move to a site that does not allow them at all.

A reasonable fee wouldn't have been a problem. The fee was unreasonable.

I thought all those people said they were leaving back on July 1st.

It never occurred to me that after their dumb protest failed we'd have to hear about it ad nauseam.

If you hate Reddit so much, just leave. It's not that difficult to uninstall an app.

A lot of people lol. I'm only on Reddit because Relay is keeping it up for a little longer. Once Relay is gone, I'll be on Reddit a hell of a lot less.

About time tbqh

So is reddit.

because people give a shit