Comment by julianlam
5 years ago
I agree that subreddits have a very low barrier to entry, but all that comes at a cost. Among other things, one of those costs is that your content is no longer owned by you.
Should Reddit decide to take itself private, or make ethically questionable decisions, etc., you are locked in due to the networking effect.
There’s risk in everything…self-hosted forum software run by an open source project also has a potential of going offline, either because hosting becomes onerous/expensive or some sort of database issue. Discord and Github have the exact same potential you’ve mentioned for Reddit. There’s no perfect answer.
If it's quality conversation, it will be quoted elsewhere, mirrored (if only to add ads!) and even archived for example on archive.com. Blog posts will be written that refer to it as a rationale for doing that way.
That isn't different for Discord though and reddit can be crawled at least.
Telegram group/channel can take care of those concerns
Right. Good luck having a conversation as the channel grows. There's been several times where I've joined a channel, asked a question, and my question is gone from the screen before anyone is able to answer. Slack/Discord are way better than Telegram for support.
How is Telegram different from Reddit in that regard? If anything, it seems much less accessible while sharing all the risks mentioned by GP.