Is Discord Dead?
🔥 Anybody feel it?
Hey there, friend,
Is Discord dead?
It’s felt that way for some time now—and I don’t just mean in our budding server.
I mean across the whole platform, no matter if I join new servers or old, big servers or small, DM people directly…
The platform just feels dead.
I recognize this newsletter would work better a social media post.
Unfortunately, I am still not quite ready to hop back into social media marketing, but perhaps that’s what’s brewing right now.
See, I joined Discord December of 2020.
That was after I was living on my own with my freelancing paying all my bills.
That was after I had spent 2 years building up my portfolio to get to that point.
That was after I got into therapy, got on meds, and basically, got my mental health shit in order.
No, I wasn’t diagnosed with AuDHD quite yet, but the pattern is obvious:
Without Discord in my life, I was simply doing better.
I was also living rent-free at my parents’ place, quit weed and alcohol, and had no friends, but let’s forget that convenient context for a moment to focus on the problem Discord has become for me:
It’s truly taken over my life since I started burnout recovery in 2023.
In fact, one of the first steps I took in burnout recovery was starting this very same Discord server to have a place to play Minecraft with neurodivergent friends.
It was Reddit that got our first few members, then Disboard.
And now, new members really only come from this newsletter or my direct invitation.
It’s changed a lot, to say the least.
So maybe, just like the blog, something about my relationship with Discord needs to change.
Maybe I should spend less time in loud VCs crocheting and more time in quiet VCs writing.
Maybe I should spend less time finding friends and more time finding collaborators.
Maybe I should do a lot differently—or maybe not.
Guess we’re in a period of thinking about a lot of things, friends.
If you’d like to follow along for the journey, well, here’s the button:
x, Atlas