person backing up his car exploitable with the following four panels:

  1. person looking ahead. the text below him says, “wow a cool software. let’s check out the community”
  2. screenshot with the text

    Community
    The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat.

  3. hand on gear shift zoomed in, switching to reverse
  4. person looking behind with the text “nevermind”.
  • @[email protected]English
    11•9 months ago

    Also people don’t want to make a new account to ask one question. Discord let’s you pop into a server, ask a question, and leave with ease.

    Until this is enabled in some other platform, people won’t switch away from Reddit/Lemmy and discord. People don’t want to make accounts and that’s why these services took over.

    • @someacnt_
      2•9 months ago

      Hmm, now I wonder why lemmy does not have this “temporary user” kind of thing, where you can join with simpler form only to participate once (with restrictions, ofc)

      • @ElectroVagrant
        3•9 months ago

        Some speculation on my part:

        1. There are other higher priority items for the developers.
        2. It’s open to abuse, even with restrictions, and a restricted guest account may create a bad impression if the restrictions are poorly communicated (and considering some basic features of Lemmy as-is struggle with being communicated, this is a high probability).
        3. Larger/more active servers/communities (depending on implementation) may simply disable the feature altogether or further limit it due to 2.

        Despite what @[email protected] says, 3 (or variations on it) has become more common across some larger/more active Discord servers simply because communities understandably don’t want to deal with drop-in trolls or raids, meaning some of them go so far as to temporarily limit or add small hurdles for people even with accounts.

        You can of course still find many Discord servers that don’t, which is among the reasons it remains so popular, but it’s not as sure of a thing as it was in the past.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•9 months ago

          It’s actually a misunderstanding of what I was saying. Lemmy already has this functionality. I use my normal account to ask a question in a community I’m not normally apart of. In the forum days I’d need to make an account for e.g. a power tool forum if I had a question.

          Discord is the same. I use my normal account to join a server, ask a question, then leave after getting the answer. No temporary account needed.

          • @ElectroVagrant
            2•9 months ago

            I must’ve been more tired than I realized and didn’t catch that properly, sorry about that! I was also more focused on the other person’s question and taking it more literally as in the pseudo-guest feature of Discord, which enables you to pop in and ask without a full account.

        • @someacnt_
          1•9 months ago

          I see. Then I guess lemmy’s current approach is reasonable. I do recall most discord servers does have e.g. some period until being able to post something.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•9 months ago

        You can, you just comment in a community you’re not subscribed to, same as Reddit.

        On Reddit / Lemmy I just post to the power tools subreddit if I have a question. But in the forum days I’d need to find a power tool forum, make an account, post, remember to check for answers outside of my daily browsing, then never use the forum again.