I'm sure a lot of us didn't use it much because it was overwhelming and difficult to follow sometimes, but I know that lots of people loved it, and I'm one of them.
Just feeling reflective and thinking about what lessons can be learned from the whole experience, what we can use going forwards for the betterment of our community, and what we think are things we want to build towards.
I'm so utterly proud of this community, many wonderful things happened on the discord and in the weeks after the sub was banned, so many people came together and worked hard for the betterment of their comrades, we've witnessed a glimpse of the power of our solidarity with one another, and I can't wait to see how far we can go.
I love you all, and you know I mean it <3
It moved too fast for me personally. I stuck to lurking a handful of channels (opsec, veganism, debate-veganism, and everything in the server deets section) because otherwise I couldn't keep up fully with conversations that were taking place. I barely posted at all on reddit too so it's not much different for me I guess.
I think things like discord/matrix are better used for asking/answering simple questions like 'Does anybody have any movie recommendations in x genre?' and less good for longer/more complex discussions that require full paragraphs of text to get ideas across. I liked the megathreads on the sub because you could see a ton of different conversations happening in the same space which just isn't possible to do in a discord chat channel.
It was better than nothing though. I hadn't realized how much of my time on reddit was spent on cth and how shitty the rest of reddit was until I was kind of forced to go without.
I agree with you, better than nothing but not the best for proper discussion.
It was also really hard to follow multiple different conversational threads across more than a few a hours, so most of the time you'd start a discussion and it'd go nowhere.
I generally didn't even try to follow conversations as they happened. Just check in on a channel whenever I got bored and scroll through the 200+ messages til I caught up, but yeah it sounds impossible to stay on top of more than one conversation.
I'm just happy we're here now.