But it’s more productive than screaming into the void on social media.
The success of the server has also informed how he thinks about ways to reform the social web.
It’s all part of the larger, ongoing fracturing of our social media landscape.
For a decade, Twitter proved to be the room where news broke.
When people accumulate large followings on social media, they run into context collapse, she says.
By contrast, some more exclusive chats are seen as cozy, safe spaces.
The company has 200 million active users, up from 100 million in 2020.
“We don’t have that endless doomscrolling,” Badalich says.
“We don’t have that place where you’re passively consuming content.
Discord is about real-time interaction.”
And interacting among smaller groups may be more natural.
Research by the psychologist Robin Dunbar in the 1990s found that humans could cognitively maintain about 150 meaningful relationships.
News organizations like MSNBC, Reuters, and Telemundo have channels.
CNN has nearly 15 million followers, while The New York Times has about 13 million.
“I prefer it to an algorithm,” she says.
“It’s going to be stories that I will find interesting.”
“It doesn’t feel like it’s a truthful channel,” Usher says.
“They’re trying to create a picture of how they want to be seen personally.
Some of the larger group chats, like those on Discord, have moderation and rules.
If a couple breaks up, who gets the group chat?
How many memes is a person allowed to send a day?
What happens when the group texts get leaked?
We’re in a moment where massive change could come to our chats and our social networks.
“There’s been a social internet for 30 years,” says Kramer.
But there’s “so much room for innovation and new exciting and alternative options.”
But his group chat might still have the best vibes of all.
Amanda Hooveris a senior correspondent at Business Insider covering the tech industry.
She writes about the biggest tech companies and trends.
