I was a long time lurker of r/cth and it was the only sane place I could go on Reddit to read shit that wasn’t saturated with racist memes about where I was born (China). Like I don’t even live there and haven’t for decades but fuck me is it wearying to see sOCiAl CrEDIt SCorE jokes on every fucking thread. Anyway I’m done with Reddit and was hanging around general lemmy instances and found y’all through the federation noise. I guess this post was kind of pointless but I’m just happy this community is still around.
Love & peace x
Yeah discord causes immense problems outside of small groups, once you get over like 30-50 active people in one space it quickly dissolves into quite a lot of personal conflicts.
Not that personal conflicts don't happen here but discord makes them far more public and stressful for people involved, which plays into ongoing issues day after day. You get them in any setting but different formats make them present in less problematic ways.
the exception to this is servers designed for a specific purpose, at least in my experience
like large ttrpg servers have been drama free for me
I run a server of 1000+ and uh... there are certainly headaches. But it's not too bad because it is a specific purpose/marginalised community server.
I find I'm either shut out of conversations because America/Europe are asleep, or the chat moves too fast to have conversations (on servers above a size)