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It’s also a matter of retention rate. I might make a new account on a forum and make one post or comment, but what are the chances I come back to the forum or build community there after I close out the page?
With discord, previous communities you’ve interacted with are stickied to the side and thus get totally forgotten about less easily.
I feel its the reverse, most people I know on discord mute most of the discord servers they are in. I put most of the discord servers I'm in into folders so that its easier to find the people I actually talk to and ignore all of the ones I joined for asking questions or downloading files.
The thing is, you have that option, and have a central system to do that management, rather than a hundred different sights that it is hard to maintain contact networks across.
Good point. The single account for multiple "servers" contributes to that as well.
It would be nice if it was on an open protocol rather than a proprietary platform, but it is what it is.