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Discord ruined what was left of online forums and so it’s users now deserve the full force of enshittification. It was so easy to join, how come it’s this hard to leave?
It's hard to leave because it's easy to join, and because it has the critical mass of users. Simple as that. It takes a lot to get people to abandon their chats, their friends, their groups, and the years of built-up message history, for an app that likely has fewer users and fewer features.
I don't want more apps, I want to return to ~~monke~~ early 2000s web forums.
no thank you I actually like chatting over a websocket connection instead of having to refresh a page every two minutes
Granted they're not the growing and bustling places they used to be, but there are still both niche and "lifestyle" forums that are alive and stable. Other than this place, one of the latter is where I spend most of my online socializing time.
Yea I saw the writing on the wall years ago. Why do I want a fucking client to talk to mass people. That is a shit format for more than like 6 people in a room.
It's basically an old school chat room at that point.
Exactly, and a terrible informational forum IMO
Mutual hostage taking, you can't leave because everyone is there, and they can't leave because you're there.
Only collective action can be organized to break this social trap. The easiest way is to require the garden's walls pulled down.
But I'd be fine putting down the executive
"this hill was so easy to walk down, why is it so hard to walk up it?"