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A Discord server seems to meet many of my “small social network” needs. The hacker spirit of this post is fun but it can be hard to get friends to value it as much as the person running it might.
The article mentions "your job is social first, technical second" but seems to focus mostly on the technical aspects. Was hoping to find more advice for the social aspects.
Created a tiny Discord for some friends and have been wondering what I can do to make it worth spending time on (specifically, how do I make it more interesting than all the other servers they could be spending time on--if I just copy what I've seen works, then I'll probably just have the same thing with less activity).
Worth mentioning my specific intention was to foster the sort of high quality discussion that is possibly unique to this website. So I guess I'm wondering if HN's recipe can be replicated, and what's the secret sauce. Strong rules and moderation? But the culture seems to play a big role too.
Err, if your friends don't want to chat with you, I don't think there's much you can do. Maybe they're just busy? Or maybe you'd be better off doing other activities with them (multiplayer games etc) if you want to hang out.
Seconded. I have a friend group from college that moved from a Facebook group (due to several people quitting facebook) through a couple different services before settling on Discord.
When we were initially discussing moving off Facebook I looked at self-hosted options, including mastodon, but we explicitly did not want federation—just a private group for us.
Sounds like a good idea. What you want fits right in the 'private group chat' category, it seems. As opposed to 'public group chat' (like HN) and also opposed to 'private one-to-one chat'.
I'm struggling with the following question and I also want to ask you the same question: Would you want anything other than the functionality Whatsapp has to offer? Why didn't you already use Whatsapp or an equal solution?
I've never used Whatsapp. It didn't even come up as an option when we were initially discussing alternatives to Facebook (ca. 2018), so presumably none of my friend group use it regularly either.
I am not complaining too much, because lets face it, it works. however it always feel wrong when people talk about "their" discord server. there is no way to run your own discord server, you are merely a digital serf thankful for the opportunity to use discords server.
signed: a person who maintains a mumble server... that no one uses.
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