• RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t understand why discord is so popular for communities. There is 0 permanence, and google does not index it so not even organic growth.

    Discord is a black hole of knowledge except for the ai training companies.

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      3 months ago

      It attracts a different audience, so in aggregate it seems like your community is suddenly bigger because 1+1=2 right? What you don’t realize is that you’ve divided your community into two separate groups with possibly different wants, needs and cultures.

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        3 months ago

        Or that 50% of the users on the discord only went there to find one thing, and probably won’t ever interact again.
        So it looks like a bigger community, while losing accessibility.

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      3 months ago

      Google doesn’t index Discord, which means the billion dollar ad industry makes little effort to push their ads on Discord.

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      3 months ago

      Because its very easy to use and does stuff no other platform does (make it extremely easy to voice/video chat with multiple people streaming screen and essentially make a forum in 2 clicks)

      • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
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        3 months ago

        Also their role system is badass. It’s incredibly fine grained and makes it possible to manage large communities with plenty of different user levels.