As someone who clung on to life at some of the tiny lifeboat subreddits after the axe dropped, this place is a veritable bustling metropolis of posting by comparison and I can’t complain too much
I’ve seen more activity here than I did last week??
Just the natural cycle. Burst of initial posting, now we gotta figure out our long term rhythms. It’s a marathon not a sprint.
We all had some pent up content to get out, and now we have to create more content.
excuuuuse me, but the only twitter screenshots i use go into memes
Its difficult to move to a new platform, especially when its not well established. Also this is why I think its too soon to split into communities. We’re basically a forum with a slightly different interface now. I hope it catches up over time, but we need to keep it active…
yeah, it takes time for visiting to be routine, I have to remember it’s here
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.
