Disclaimer: I'm not saying you can't/shouldn't use Discord for things that are actually convenient/useful to you. That isn't what I'm going for.
I've been getting increasing weird pressure to "JOIN THE DISCORD" in so many places in ways that are just an increase of background noise that I will never be able to keep up with but the norm seems to be to continue cranking up that background noise.
In a recent undisclosed PVP game that I otherwise enjoy, someone was spawncamping and griefing me (used to that, it happens in that game) and even that griefer kept messaging me to "JOIN THE DISCORD" with a link. Why would I want to join the Discord of someone that is actively griefing me? 
Even weirder, I asked that griefer that question, and they seem genuinely baffled about why that would stop me from "JOINING THE DISCORD."
I already make sure Discord is off by default and only turn it on when I'm actually using it to communicate with people for something like my tabletop games. Even then it's kind of annoying background noise and I don't like how intrusive and data-miney it gets.
Yeah I'm old and that makes my take on Discord solicitations invalid. Guilty as charged. 
I absolutely hate talking in discord servers, it's so stressful for me
It's fine as an instant messenger or for hosting voice calls but otherwise i much prefer forums and such
I just can't follow anything happening on Discord it's all too fast.
It seems like Discord is catered a lot to making internet friends, which is fine but something I have zero interest in. If that's all it was used for I couldn't care less, but I hate that niche communities are increasingly putting information that used to exist on public, easily archivable forums behind the veil of Discord where the signal-to-noise ratio is awful because of the aforementioned internet friend stuff. I get that it's useful for real-time collaboration, but there's no need for it to have subsumed the slower-pace activities.
Well, i'm saying it: you can't/shouldn't use Discord even for things that are actually convenient/useful to you. It's killing the internet. Discord is an archdevil of surveillance capitalism. You should even shame everyone who uses it. That IS what I'm going for.
Well, i'm saying it: you can't/shouldn't use Discord even for things that are actually convenient/useful to you. It's killing the internet. Discord is an archdevil of surveillance capitalism. You should even shame everyone who uses it. That IS what I'm going for.
I don’t get how discord is supposed to replace forums… it’s a chat room. It’s incredibly hard to use it as a comprehensive info resource. You have to read everything backwards, as part of some never ending conversation… it’s great for real time coordination, and as a chat room/community hub, by my god the notifications alone And the settings to get them to stop are mind boggling.
Many of my favorite podcasts and niche hobbies have had their forums turn into Discords. Absolutely impossible to look at discussion on old topics and episodes. I don't have the free time to be in the here and now on every topic I want grrrrrrr
I think it's intended to be more of an attention sink than a forum on purpose. It means more E N G A G E M E N T.
and respected people's privacy
IT SEEMS YOU ARE PLAYING (GAME). STREAM TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS ON DISCORD NO THIS POPUP WILL NOT BE DENIED
That happened to me, too. I have to remember how many contemporary programs snitch on each other.
I barely have enough time to post on Hexbear once in a blue moon. I like to read at my own pace and open 15 Hexbear tabs at once. How would I ever replicate this on Discord?
You just have to like and subscribe and ring the bell and check out this stream for some epic loot drops happening right now and refer your friends for a promo code
I barely watched Twitch before I got married and had a kid over the past three years. Mostly would watch older VODs on YouTube or the streamers profile page.
In a recent undisclosed PVP game that I otherwise enjoy, someone was spawncamping and griefing me (used to that, it happens in that game) and even that griefer kept messaging me to "JOIN THE DISCORD" with a link. Why would I want to join the Discord of someone that is actively griefing me?
This is like stopping cyber bulling 101 and kids need to understand that cutting off contact with an abuser is good.
This is like stopping cyber bulling 101 and kids need to understand that cutting off contact with an abuser is good.
Agreed, though I was genuinely surprised that the griefer was
in their response. No actual anger or even mocking or anything like that, just "why don't you want to join discord?" 
Makes me think it's probably a kid.
"Why don't you want to contribute to my candy-like craving for more artificial parasocial friendship accumulation, person I just griefed?"
Join The Discord is the new Join The Forum from
days, and I was too old then too.Serious note: Discord is rapidly replacing Reddit as the new center of community management in the wider world. For better or worse, prepare for several years of this until Discord's eventual Enshittification.
What if a forum but with a lot more surveillance built in that reminds you that it's there by having popups that obnoxiously suggest what you should do?
There's genuinely cool discord groups (like the Abnormal Mapping and Waypoint/Remap ones), but my brain just works better with something like this. Is this what being old feels like?
Is this what being old feels like?
Perhaps.
I'm sure the streamerbrained youths of today will be put off and confused by something their kids are doing, hopefully something that isn't even more attention stealing by design.
If things last that long.
If things last that long.
Star Citizen will be in full release shortly before third impact
