I agree. I dont get why people use things like discord or slack to discuss stuff especially with lots of users.

A lot of users push for Discord. Very few (comparatively) push for Lemmy/Kbin.

I was a mod of a 500k+ subreddit. We wound up basically being forced to make a Discord a few years ago because users wanted one so badly. It wound up becoming more active than the actual subreddit itself, and has a bigger mod team (most of whom aren't even mods on the subreddit, just Discord).

It's interesting that they say:

Now, based on the Reddark tracker, the biggest subreddit still private is r/streetwear. According to Zach, who told me last week that he is also a mod of that community, it has more than 4 million subscribers. The subreddit also has a Discord.

When there's even !streetwear@lemmy.world although I note they try and redirect people on here over to Discord. All seems odd.

edit: also note there is a !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world to soak up refugees.

Discord has forums now.