sorry that people are sick of your majestic mcus

[socksuke_uchiha]

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Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

I've long believed plurk is toxic. like it's not even the people it's designed to be that way. like most social media platforms.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

yeah i was pretty shocked to see how many people mindlessly defended plurk in that plurk vs. discord tizzy we had. it read like a bunch of brainwashed fanatics who refused to admit it's a piece of shit platform that encourages shitty behavior which hey, we should probably drop.

and discord isn't perfect either, but imo it's not nearly as bad. it's just not even close, on top of plurk's awful design and clunky code.

[(Anonymous)]

i agree. discord has its problems but there's something about that kind of ongoing mass conversation that imo weeds out some of the performative stuff, and the subtly toxic mechanical stuff like follower and comment counts.

-1

[(Anonymous)]

yeah no, discord just breeds performative assholes who talk over entire games versus just the few people who choose to engage with them

plurk is far from perfect, but discord is AIM without the cutesy sounds

[(Anonymous)]

no. AIM, ICQ and MSN were 121 messengers with the option of group chats. discord is like IRC servers with a trendy skin in that it's a group space with optional 121 messaging.

also they're not performing being an asshole. they're just assholes. complain if you want but if you strike up a false dichotomy you just look like you're arguing in bad faith.

[(Anonymous)]

"1-on-1 with optional chat" and "chat with optional 1-on-1" is a distinction totally without difference. 99% of my discord usage is DMs.

[(Anonymous)]

it's really not. we frequently don't use DW (and lots of systems) by it's intended usage but the fact that it was built with a different intended use comes out in the various barriers, loopholes and hacks we find to use it how we please. this effects the user experience a lot whether or not you see that. the difference between services that put their focus on group or direct comms change a lot of things from security protocols to moderation functions to HCI considerations that put more emphasis on the communal functions and not isolated user functions.

[(Anonymous)]

i like it because people use plurk and twitter and IG like they're an influencer making announcements to their followers and i hate that but people don't really use discord like that.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

the problem with discord is that it makes it really hard to participate in discussions if you don't live in the same timezone as the majority of the game since it's real-time conversation and it's clunky and awkward to try to scroll back through hours and hours of people chattering. at least with plurk the general expectation is that people will be talking in a particular plurk for quite a while, so if you see it six hours after it goes up, in most cases you haven't totally missed the boat and can still get in on the discussion.

[(Anonymous)]

tbh i don't think plurk is immune to this. if you're there after interest has cooled on the subject you might as well not be there at all and scrolling back in a convo to me is no less irritating than scrolling backward on a plurk timeline. except it's more overwhelming because it's a bunch of disconnected convos instead of just one.

[(Anonymous)]

idk, i find that even if i comment to a plurk a few hours later, most of the time people are still happy to respond to me. with discord, it always feels kind of awkward to bring up something that was talked about five hours ago after the conversation has shifted course to about a dozen other things in the meantime.