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the problems with Discord from a web3 product designer's perspective
- centralised and controlled by web2 megacorp
- hundreds of thousands of "users", few of them active
- convoluted UI, hard to track notifications, very gamer-core
- hard to keep track across dozens of servers and hundreds of channels
- no meaningful social layer to increase engagement and target actions across servers
- no native onchain integrations (only bots, or rather apps as they now call them)
- no cross-group discovery and coordination, every server is by itself (incompatible with web3 ecosystems)
- servers have no shared bank account, can't easily pool and distribute funds, can't easily receive grants as a project (main funding mechanic across web3)
- no way to do crypto native actions easily, mint, swap, trade, bridge
- no simple way to use crypto native profiles such as farcaster, lens, ens, universal profiles, gitcoin passport and more
- which means no way to leverage reputation
- no encryption, lots of exploits & bots 0 reply
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