Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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To some extent Discord servers have replaced forums and now you have to try to search through a chat room's history to find out info instead of using a forum. Seems like a pretty big downgrade.
why not just use forums for questions
Because they don't always exist.
The community has to have an active forum to do that and a lot of them treat forums like they're too old school to be bothered with anymore, not when we have modern tech like discord