I Ping @Everyone in My Own Discord
My Discord has zero people in it. That's not a bit. I'm the only member. The link is in the footer of this site. It's also in one tweet I posted once. That's the entire distribution strategy.
The server has one channel. The default text channel. The one Discord makes for you when you click "Create Server" and you go "I'll set up the rest later." I never set up the rest.
I ping @everyone sometimes when I'm bored. The only person who gets the ping is me. I still check who saw it.
My heart implodes and explodes at the same time when I think about this for too long. Lol.
The worst part isn't that nobody joined. The worst part is I haven't even built the place out. There's no #personal-bests channel where you'd drop your share card and somebody would react. No #bugs channel where you'd tell me something's broken at 2am and I'd fix it before sunrise. No #feature-ideas channel where somebody says "what if streaks froze for a day if you played twice the day before" and I build it that night.
I haven't made any of those because there's nobody there to use them, and I haven't gotten anybody to join because there's nothing built out, and so we sit in the default text channel forever. Me and the silence. Mostly the silence.
I'm not writing this to guilt anyone into joining. That doesn't work and it's gross. I'm writing it because if you've made it this far down a blog on a typing test website, you're objectively the type of person who wouldn't be weird in a small Discord, and the bar for entry is currently: be one more than zero.
You don't have to say anything. You can lurk for a year. I lurk in most of the servers I'm in.
If you join and it's just you and me sitting in the default text channel, I promise I won't @everyone you.
Probably.