Software Engineer, Linux Enthusiast, OpenRGB Developer, and Gamer

Moved to lemmy.today from [email protected]

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  • Lemmy isn’t one big place like Reddit is, it’s a bunch of different services that connect with each other. The rules of what are and are not allowed varies instance to instance, and some instances block others entirely (“defederate”) so if your instance does not allow porn, they likely defederated with instances that do. Either way, if you use the subscribed feed you shouldn’t see things outside of the communities you’ve subscribed to, and communities also have their own rules (usually more specific than the overall instance rules, same as a subreddit’s rules vs. reddit’s sitewide rules).



  • For the most part I think this is a good thing. They are right, Discord has largely replaced public forums for community spaces. The old forums were searchable and indexed by Google and other search engines so why not Discord? I have a Discord community for my open source project OpenRGB. I started it off of someone’s suggestion on a GitLab issue bacl when the project was just getting started and it’s grown to 20K+ users. While I’m not the biggest fan of relying on a proprietary platform like Discord, my attempts to set up alternate spaces on Matrix and Discord-like Spacebar did not get any traction. There’s now 6+ years of project history locked up in Discord conversations. I feel like Google being able to index that will ultimately help reduce seeing repeat questions. While I’m not the biggest fan of AI training on my data, for informative and instructional content I’d prefer the AI overview be giving out accurate and up-to-date information than outdated or inaccurate information. Discord is where questions get answered these days for a lot of communities so it’s where the accurate information is.