Lately I’ve been using Discord a lot more. In lieu of using social media too much, I’m finding Discord somewhat rising up as a modern day offering.
It’s definitely not a replacement for all things, and it serves certain styles of conversation, ie short form, and chat-based.
But lately I find companies use their Discord servers to post announcements. Even YouTubers I follow will announce via their personal server they’ve uploaded a new video.
So this means a platform like X, is less important for those kinds of announcements. And Discord doesn’t have that shouty, soap-boxy look-at-me vibe that comes with platform like X or FB.
Also, it’s not riddled with brain-rot content, and there are strict rules around how communities conduct themselves.
To that end I wasn’t sure, as this is an old thread, if Elektron even had an official Discord server. It’s obviously just another thing they need to manage, on top of a forum.
And I like forums, they’re more long-form, you can chew the fat a little more. But then sometimes the forum mutates into a chat style thing, in which case that style of convo would be better suited to Discord.
I’m just kinda thinking out loud here, as someone who has probably only used Discord in any real capacity for about 12 months, and to be honest it took me a while to wrap my head around it, but I think it’s a fascinating platform and has a lot going for it.
For instance I’ll follow for example Chase Bliss, an Aussie eurorack server, Elden Ring, Ableton etc and whatever other things I’m interested in.
And then on top of that all of its video chat services are really fanastic… they could be live sets we’re watching, not gaming.
Anyway, Discord. It’s a thing. I dig it.
just my 5 cents on Discord…
