cw: it's about gen AI, this stuff is genuinely disgusting and horrifying
@xerzI mean, even then I believe there’s still some underlying communicationThat's true, but it's different. I checked out Discord for a while and have been on some servers, and it's just... they were all the same. Different communities that felt almost indistinguishable because most activity was identical: memes, cute picture, daily life smalltalk, and only then kinda community-specific things
I've had this feeling vaguely before with social media in general, but nothing has shown it to me as blatantly as Discord.
And that sucks. Communities used to use slower platforms in conjuction with fast-paced ones and managed to create a very solid identity, but today social media has sucked out all of the energy of the former.
It's exactly like with the YouTube channels. High-quality channels (slow platforms) are dying in favor of low-effort ones (social media) and in the end the former will disappear.