Post #364120

2026-02-22 14:57 UTC

@earthshine@masto.hackers.town @Daojoan@mastodon.social I blame Discord on the downfall of the modern web. You used to be able to find answers to your problems easily on moderated forums, where people used to follow the rules of netiquette. Nowadays you need to join private server and scroll through endless spam. IDK who had the idea of moving the support/community into de facto chatroom that is Discord, but there is a special place in hell for them.

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@crazyeddie__dup_521@mastodon.social 2026-02-22 16:21

@miszeleq@mastodon.com.pl @earthshine@masto.hackers.town @Daojoan@mastodon.social I blame stackoverflow. That guy set out with the stated goal of killing all forums and usenet and having all questions and such in one central database used by everyone. It fucking worked. Those things all died and search results largely point at that place. AI is starting to swamp it out, but there you go... I was actually slow to shift from usenet/forum to stackoverflow. Eventually I did until I just stopped participating in the "community".

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@Suran@toot.cat 2026-02-22 16:14

@miszeleq @earthshine @Daojoan Yes. #Discord is where information goes to die.

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@Orb2069@mastodon.online 2026-02-22 17:28

@miszeleq @earthshine @Daojoan We're going to find out in twenty years that the endless torrent of spam that drove people away from public forums to Discord and Facebook was funded/aided by Facebook and Discord. It's fucking Jia Tan, all the way down. I know it in my bones.

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@KitsuneVixi@sakurajima.social 2026-02-22 17:59

@miszeleq@mastodon.com.pl @Daojoan@mastodon.social @earthshine@masto.hackers.town Canva had the idea of archiving the Affinity suite forums and moving the community into Discord. Which is why I'm sticking with v2 and not trusting v3.

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