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I don't see how discord is a replacement in any way.
It says it's not so much a replacement, but rather you might want to use it if you want to follow a particular community irrespective of the platform/format. For example, right now there are several games whose communities are more active on discord servers than any of the other mentioned websites including reddit.
Discords can create their own forums, with static posts people can respond to in dedicated comment chains. I think the potential is there, but discovering discords you want to join is currently very difficult.
For specialized communities or works pretty well.
Except communities on Discord aren't search-engine-facing, so they're a complete dead end. Nobody can discover useful information there unless they are already members of that particular community. It's the "walled garden" effect.
As an example, the very specialized /r/IPv6 community seems to have adapted fairly well to Discord.
Yeah Discord is chat rooms. Very different!
you don't? it's literally reddit but with immediate responses.
"immediate responses" is the problem. Chat discussions are very different in nature from forum-type communities. Often a lot more noisy and a lot less substantive.
Is Instagram reddit but with more personal images and hashtags then?
No. Don't be obtuse. Discord hosts special interest groups that can converse in real time and make sticky threads to be replied to forum-style.
Pretty sure there's no "posts" it only has comments, aka chat.
Ask a question, receive an immediate response. It's better than reddit in many regards.
It's also unsearchable from any search engine, becoming a black hole for information etc... Unfortunately
Not true. You search the discord server you want to join, follow the invite link, and boom, you're in the server. Start talking to people, ask the community questions, and receive immediate response. If it's not what you're looking for, it's easy to leave the server. Reddit isn't popular solely because it's posts appear on google search results.
I'm not just talking about popularity. To be frank, communities moving to discord is a problem imo. Discoverability is, frankly, garbage. Information provided by others users cannot easily be found at a later date, and even then YOU DONT KNOW where the information you might want could be. If I want information on an old game for instance, on a reddit or Lemmy like platform searching for the game would yield a result, on discord I'd first have to find out which communities exist and then search each one separately, filter out the garbage (Discord conversation is a lot harder to parse and a lot less information dense than Lemmy or reddit)... This leads to having to ask again, old information might be lost and much time is wasted, both for the person asking the question and the ones answering, for no benefit. Hope you can see my perspective here
Nope. There are threads on Discord. You can use it like a message board.