Chat has its limits though. For information to be synthesized into knowledge, the rate of messaging needs to be slowed down to make room for less reactive, more deliberate, long-form expression.

That are Forums.

Discord today is equal parts group chat and forum.

with limitations:

• Discord is not web-readable and thus only minimally linkable
• Discord mixes different thread concepts (chat-channel threads vs forum-channel threads)
• Discord's finances are dubious
• Discord is closed source.

Messages are living information artifacts. As content blobs they can morph through many different forms, from ephemeral musings to everlasting tomes of shared understandings.

I like the flow from thought to chat to thread to article: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/583842/273896083-c035f6d7-47b2-43e4-abe6-4d42a5f54c76.png

So the author introduce the Commune app (see https://shpong.com/):

While in v0.x_pre-alpha it is essentially Linen (or Discourse Bot Kit), but for Matrix instead of Discord/Slack. Hook your existing Matrix instances up with Commune to give your channels web-public threading superpowers. [...] It's a Reddit-like site that operates a network of sub-communities.