I’m really curious where else everyone here hangs out on the internet besides Lemmy.

I myself am frequently on discord with my wife and friends playing games. I’ve also found myself in and around smaller blogs spaces like Kev Quirk and related people. Reddit used to be a place for me to hang out but I never found a community that I felt connected to. I don’t know if YouTube would be considered a place to hang out, but I frequently spend way more time there than I should. IRC used to be a great place for me.

So, where are your favorite places?

  • be_excellent_to_each_other
    -2•8 months ago

    It’s a group chat app, not a forum. And being thrown into a group chat with 100 strangers is kind of the worst.

    I do appreciate that nuance but IRC (as of last I checked - admittedly it’s been about a decade since I was habitually connected to IRC) is not really like that despite fitting essentially the same description.

    Discord shines when you use it with a tight-knit group. A RL friend group, a gaming clan, etc.

    That makes sense, I can see that.

    • @[email protected]
      1•8 months ago

      Yeah I expect given how long ago IRC’s heydey was, we’re talking about quite a different demographic. Everyone I know who used it was on the nerdy side (this includes me, it’s not an insult!), whereas things like Discord with their modern interfaces make things easy enough that for example I run a crafting community on there full of old ladies sharing their cross stitch.

      Anything that attracts huge numbers of regular folks like that is gonna be a target for trolls and spammers and suchlike, so without good moderation a public server can spiral down quite fast in my experience. Add to all this the ever-increasing hostility and us-vs-them of people on the internet in general, and ugh.

      I’m sure there are plenty of lovely spaces out there too ofc, it’s just finding them that’s the trick :)

      • be_excellent_to_each_other
        -1•8 months ago

        I’m sure there are plenty of lovely spaces out there too ofc, it’s just finding them that’s the trick :)

        Thanks for the followup - I have to agree and I suppose the takeaway is I (possibly) picked the wrong servers so far.