After two decades of sharing more online, it looks like we’ve decided to share less. New polling shows that nearly a third of all social media users post less than they did a year ago. That trend is especially true for adults in Gen Z.
YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4MNdCAnWA
Discord servers come and go. People have lives that change over the years. Also, there’s the definite issue of hesitation to post on a server that last saw a message a month ago, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The Beehaw Discord can go days without a post (in fairness, I can’t speak to the #gaming channel, as I have it muted). My college roommate’s ostensible gaming server is the same way. Ditto for the local server I’m in.
Discord – at least the way I’ve used it – is generally for low-volume, low-importance communication with people you know at least parasocially. It’s a completely different beast from the firehoses of social media companies, and I prefer it that way. Also, while it’s far from “secure,” conversations aren’t indexed by Google, providing a certain level of privacy.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to fetch my pipe and slippers, head out to the rocking chair and yell at a cloud.