I kinda love that this is on discord's front page, far from demonstrating how cool and useful it is, it actually illustrates what happens when you try to use a chat problem as a wiki, which is to say that no-one can find anything and access is contingent on being in the right place at the right time (📎1)
Absolutely. We can still have matrix instances for chatting. There is nothing inherently bad about an inpermanent format, it has its place. However as the need of having anything last for more than a week, with the possibility of being occasionaly accessed years from now, a lemmy, forum-like, format is a must.
In my mind information storing needs two major things set straight from the get go: organization and sorting of information, and searchability. Discord, to my experience, barely has either.
Absolutely. We can still have matrix instances for chatting. There is nothing inherently bad about an inpermanent format, it has its place. However as the need of having anything last for more than a week, with the possibility of being occasionaly accessed years from now, a lemmy, forum-like, format is a must.
In my mind information storing needs two major things set straight from the get go: organization and sorting of information, and searchability. Discord, to my experience, barely has either.
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Lemmy’s devs are offering to host other people’s instances!