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  • It’s because of this bullshit.

    Take a guess how many members this server/example community serves:

    500? 2000? 10,000+?

    Surely, a group of 50,000 needs a ticket system, age verification, moderation, and rules/TOS+registration?

    There are twelve users in that chat/server. Three of the 12 are moderators. One is the “owner”.

    Discord became a “community tool” because Discord moderators/“creators” are a special class of human being who realized their dream model train set could be upgraded with Internet connectivity.

    Medium-to-large-scale-enterprise tooling is available to spin up for anyone, without having to pay for anything. In fact, Discord incentivizes donations through “boosts” where the users of a community pay for server costs rather than the hosts/maintainers themselves.

    As a result, people go ham and never invest in proper training, role division or infrastructure. They cosplay at running a pseudo-corporation and Discord adds their requested features, at a price/donation premium.

    P.S: I run a Discord channel of 223 users with no moderation, we have one text channel and two voice channels. We use the service like Ventrilo or TeamSpeak for a Steam Clan. I’ve literally had these busybodies from disparate communities join just to tell me I was “doing it wrong”.








  • Naz@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.worldAre Dating Apps Getting Worse?
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, the dating apps are monetized to all hell, you guys have called it right.

    I was on them a decade ago, and I’m classically handsome, mentally stable, good job, etc; went looking for a serious partner with similar life goals, and all I got was catfishing and trolls.

    After I subscribed to the premium tier, I began getting messages from real people but I was so disgusted by the transparent greed that I swore off all dating websites and services and went the offline route, meeting my current SO through real life friends at a social event.

    Starve the beast, as the conservatives say. Deny them their money.