I get the impression that a lot of interesting community convening is happening on Discord/Slack, but I haven't figured out how to engage with those mediums without producing scattered mind. Any tips/insights? (beyond obvious—"disable notifs, unread dots, timebox" etc)
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I notice that if I aggressively timebox Discord/Slack, and open only once a day or two, like email, then I don't get the feel of building a connection with a community at all. This is different from Twitter / mailing lists / forums, where the medium's more OK with infrequency.
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I think one important thing with using discord/slack well is that there's no catching up on it. While you're there you're there, you might read maybe a page of scrollback to get context tops, but you don't attempt to read anything from while you're gone.
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The same is true of Twitter, I am continually amazed that some people feel the need to catch up on everything they missed or read everything that the people they follow have tweeted
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The solution here ofc is to simply follow more people, at which point it becomes impossible and you have to give up and surrender to the algorithm! :)