• GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Chat and forum are different things and serve different purposes. Even matrix doesn’t solve the search problem. Use a forum for this.

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      8 months ago

      yeah that is why discord should not be used for problem-solving or archival purpose. Hell, even mastodon,reddit and lemmy can be indexed properly on search engine.

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        8 months ago

        Mastodon and Lemmy could be indexed relatively easily, but as all social media it raises the problem of consent on broader decimation of content that’s intended for a specific audience.

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      The biggest problem with traditional forums is the fact that participation requires yet another account. This is the most significant thing that discord has going for it, nearly everybody already has a discord account. Federated forums mostly solve this issue tho

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        is the fact that participation requires yet another account.

        You can literally connect most active forum engines to eg.: OpenID, XMPP, email or any/most kinds of online identifiers. Worst case scenario you can literally enable “sign in with Google”.