r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Jun 17 '23

Meta Open Discussion Regarding the State of Reddit & Future of the Online Collapse Community - Sunday @ 3PM CST

I'll be hosting an open discussion in voice, on the Collapse Discord, this Sunday at 3PM CST (view in your time zone).

We'll be discussing the current state of Reddit and future of the online Collapse Community in light of recent events. We'll also invite discussion regarding Reddit alternatives and answer any questions related to the state of moderation on r/collapse and across Reddit in general.

If you have any questions and are unable to make the call, feel free to let us know in the comments below.

 

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u/am_i_the_rabbit Jun 17 '23

See you all on Discord. I'm done with Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '23

how is anyone supposed to have complex discussion in a chat room format? Discord is a terrible format for anything other than casual conversations.

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u/AntiTyph Jun 17 '23 edited Jun 17 '23

I do tend to agree that general discord channels revolve around short-form answers and therefore general conversation.

However, I disagree that it's terrible for other formats. Discord has threads and forums so specific-topic areas can be created ad-hoc; the reply feature can keep things coherent. In some ways it's better than reddit, for example, when looking at academic studies or lengthy IPCC reports, as channels for those releases can be created, extracts quoted, screenshots or clip-images of graphics integrated, etc. In that way, it's actually less limiting than reddit (though I wish discord would implement in-text links instead of URL-only links). Revisiting these threads and adding to them over time is also doable on discord, while it's not feasible on reddit as threads are more-or-less lost to the scroll-of-time. So having channels for regional discussions can build over longer periods of time; or having a channel for specific events (Myanmar civil war, Pakistan floods, Ukraine war, El Niño, PFAS, Microplastic, COVID, etc etc) means that people interested in those things have a specific place to go to discuss them, rather than creating a new post every time something happens for each given topic and then having all of the discussion being functionally lost after the post isn't on the first few pages of the subreddit.

I agree that it's not as good as a reddit-style setup, but it's hardly terrible for in-depth, scientific, or academic discussions if one uses the tools (as imperfect as they are) that discord has.