The Thread Raiders Evolution

Before I begin this conversation, chapter 3 of The Chair is coming soon! Read the first two chapters here: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.

For those of you don't know, I am a Thread Raider (read this). And I have an interesting topic of discussion regarding this.

We seem to have gone from Twitter to Discord. @Cptsugarbear on Twitter, former Thread Raider, changed his old Discord group into the Thread Raiders Discord Group (awesome dude, check him out!). Now, we are a small community. A very small community. And all of our conversations are either D&D-related projects and casual conversations. With the creation of this group, all this, quite few conversations have been moved along into different text channels. Twitter is barely in use for the Thread Raiders. Of COURSE we still do interact with the amazing #dnd community and some of us aren't even in the group! But most Thread Raiders focused conversations are now in the Discord group.

Now, what does this mean? Are the Thread Raiders losing what they first were? NO. Absolutely not. You could look at these in more ways:

The Thread Raiders are now less accessible. We are, at core, nerds who just like to chat and hang out. A community built on love and love only. We stand for positivity in this world of Internet which is so, SO filled with toxicity. We aren't the only ones, a lot of people are positive in this world in which it's so simple to type some words to some comment, but some don't think about the consequences. While most of us are D&D fans/gamers, we accept anybody. But moving into a private group kinda makes us less accessible.

On the other hand, we are evolving. We are moving into another place, where it is easier to discuss things. In the past, using only Twitter meant casual conversations with funny replies and gifs. Now, we can make projects and stand for what we stand for. By moving in Discord we become more and more self-aware. We aren't detaching from the #dnd community of Twitter, which is freaking amazing! We are creating our own corner, which makes us a different community. We are still a sub-community of the #dnd world, but still, we are evolving. Also, this speed of messaging we are now in makes things go a lot faster, and also, all conversations are actually easier to find! You can see there's new messages in the Discord group, but it's harder to find threads in the network of Twitter people just forgot to mention you in. If we had to mention each other, that would basically mean there is a limit to our growth. We would have to type in every single member of the Thread Raiders just to talk about, say, our Minecraft server (I am not going to talk about that, don't ask). Now we are gathered in this place, and aiming for the greater.