
the spirit is weak. woe be the spirit. the body is weaker still. Siërra R
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"this is a rambling rant that doesn't make sense" yes, i'm stoned and very depressed, thanks for noticing
Nah, it makes perfect sense. The fact that Discord is Always On and every "server" has you in every channel and you can't control shit about fuck is why I never talk in Discord servers. I find it so hard even just to use it to talk to my friends and I feel guilty about that but I just can't deal with it.
i am in something like 40 servers
i regularly talk in three of them: mine, a small friend group, and ss13
most of them are muted, put in a shit folder because, well, i had to join them once, leaving is effort, rejoining is more effort
oh thank god im not alone offers a hug in solidarity... well, there is only one server about which i feel guilty. some peeps on twt announced it, i joined, and never talk much due to what you describe, decay
the others are themed servers i was interested at the time... like one in esperanto, another for japanese learners etcpp. but i never look in any of those... now adays i only ever open discord when wifey sends me a new page of her comic to spellcheck and admire and such... it became a bit much on my matrix homeserver storage wise, so yeah.. >_>
at the time of joining i always think: oh neat! so many people sharing my interest/vibe. but when it comes to interacting with discord in any way, i always feel like im intruding on someone elses space... and in too many rooms at once and all. i really wish there was something more like irc.... except less crap somehow. ok irc isnt crap. but it's not gold either, nowadays. it's like an old but well maintained vw käfer, still in working order but had already seen its best days long ago
I've been struggling with this for years actually, I'll join a bunch of Telegram groups and channels and get super active and then people will start DMing me and I'll chronically have a half dozen notifications and get stuck in a trap constantly picking up my phone to reply to people without really knowing when to stop or how to tell people I need space until I flip my shit and have to stop and go feel like shit for a while
but you can see everything that was ever said in a discord server, even from before you joined, or from when you were offline. you just have to scroll up and it loads in. thats like one of discord's improvements over irc
yes, and i'm saying that's not good. it's not good to have your space's entire history visible to everyone at all times