“I will never go back, it’s way better on Discord.”

One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.

  • Vlyn@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Discord actually has “Forum” channels that work like Reddit. You can create posts and search for them. So if you use Discord right you could more or less recreate Subreddits inside a single Discord server.

    Not a fan of them moving to Discord instead of Lemmy, but anyway, fuck Reddit.

    • Retro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t know about Forum channels, thanks for the heads-up. Are they crawled by search engines, though? I feel like with people deleting their reddit posts and moving to discord, it’s already becoming a lot harder to find information online.

      • Vlyn@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Considering you don’t find Discord server logs on Google I’d say: No.

        Discord is its own thing.

        Google results have been down the drain for years, the only reasonable results I found were by appending reddit or site:reddit.com. Now even that is gone :-/

        • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Duckduckgo and Brave Search often shows Reddit results for me even without site:reddit.com. Though now because of how Lemmy works with all of these instances, we can’t easily use site: anymore. Hoping that search crawlers will be able to just index Lemmy/Kbin instances fine to pull the results in search engines in the future.

    • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      So if you use Discord right you could more or less recreate Subreddits inside a single Discord server.

      I am part of some Discord servers that utilizes this. Downside is that it doesn’t have comment threads which might be one of the things that made Reddit popular. Also, because Discord is more meant to use for chatting, people type a lot of non-productive stuff that you have to go through instead of filtering from top/best comments. Servers that have slow mode turned on (can only send a message every # of mins) to help still has this issue as well.