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1. Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 03:39:57 JST Rusty Crab

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   @PurpCat @xianc78 @gabriel @GrungeQueef people call me crazy but discord is a LOT more healthy than twitter as far as social media goes. Humans were not meant to operate by shouting 24/7 in a public square.
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   • arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 05:19:21 JST arcanicanis

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     • Some Purple Cat
     The key difference though (aside from very dissimilar platforms) is that Discord lacks any algorithmic prioritization of posts (which wouldn't even make any sense on instant messaging to begin with). Whereas I would demarcate the time when Twitter/Facebook opened the Pandora's Box of algorithmic prioritization (instead of chronological order) as the turning point of when the internet started to turn to crap, online discussion and politics became more vitriolic, etc.
     A decade ago you could have people terminally online on forums and IRC and not see as severe of mental illness that you normally see on Twitter today.
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