I mean, the migration from discord is slowing down. Soon it will all be the the natural growth of the site and then we will be able to judge and strategize about it. We’re still in the early game with this community.
The discord is devastatingly impersonal and transient. I don’t know how anyone can stand it.
Some of the smaller channels were cool, and I dug “the people’s podcast” for the first few days, but yeah. The discord as a whole takes the concept of a “stream of consciousness” and upgrades it to a firehose of consciousness. Say something and it is lost to the scrollback and lost forever in a half hour.
“Firehose of consciousness” is a very good description. I also saw someone call it an “endless twitch chat”, which I found very descriptive, because there’s nothing particularly wrong with it, but it’s useless to have a conversation, or any kind of coherent dialogue.
