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you don't? it's literally reddit but with immediate responses.
"immediate responses" is the problem. Chat discussions are very different in nature from forum-type communities. Often a lot more noisy and a lot less substantive.
Not really. Well moderated servers with large user counts are always divided into relevant channels where noise is suppressed by the mods and actual conversations occur. It's nowhere near as chaotic as you think it is.
Is Instagram reddit but with more personal images and hashtags then?
No. Don't be obtuse. Discord hosts special interest groups that can converse in real time and make sticky threads to be replied to forum-style.
Pretty sure there's no "posts" it only has comments, aka chat.
Nope. There are threads on Discord. You can use it like a message board.
You're looking for reasons to be mad about something you don't use. How about trying the thing? Also, you had no trouble creating a new lemmy acct. Why is discord anathema to you?
Ask a question, receive an immediate response. It's better than reddit in many regards.
It's also unsearchable from any search engine, becoming a black hole for information etc... Unfortunately
Not true. You search the discord server you want to join, follow the invite link, and boom, you're in the server. Start talking to people, ask the community questions, and receive immediate response. If it's not what you're looking for, it's easy to leave the server. Reddit isn't popular solely because it's posts appear on google search results.
I'm not just talking about popularity. To be frank, communities moving to discord is a problem imo. Discoverability is, frankly, garbage. Information provided by others users cannot easily be found at a later date, and even then YOU DONT KNOW where the information you might want could be. If I want information on an old game for instance, on a reddit or Lemmy like platform searching for the game would yield a result, on discord I'd first have to find out which communities exist and then search each one separately, filter out the garbage (Discord conversation is a lot harder to parse and a lot less information dense than Lemmy or reddit)... This leads to having to ask again, old information might be lost and much time is wasted, both for the person asking the question and the ones answering, for no benefit. Hope you can see my perspective here