• Lupec@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, it really bugs me that it’s basically absorbed what used to be public forums and whatnot into its own proprietary bubble where search engines don’t reach while not even being a good fit for that kind of thing to begin with

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      11 months ago

      And every gamer and his dog have their own, so communities are adhoc and lackluster. It does the opposite of what forums used to do.

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        11 months ago

        for real, my local rhythm games community is split among 3 different servers (that I know of) organising meet ups is a challenge nowadays

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      11 months ago

      A lot of people kept trying to tell me Discord was the new Reddit and a new ultimate messenger type software. I tried it a bit and found it lacking on both sides.

      Perhaps it will swallow the rest of the world, but I’m happy with Lemmy and other messengers.

      I’ll give it another go from time to time

      Edit: grammar

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        11 months ago

        Imo it’s decent at what it set out to be: user friendly, painless realtime chatting, with some voice/video calling to top it up. That said, they keep adding questionable bloat to try and upsell Nitro subs so honestly I can only see it worsening as time goes on.