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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

submitted 10 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Don't talk to discord users, they have cooties.

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[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have an existing community of thousands of users on discord, attempts to migrate to other platforms have failed. What would you suggest?

The community was inherited and existed when I became maintainer.

[-] dillydogg@lemmy.one 8 points 9 months ago

For you, I suggest sticking to Discord. I am of the mind that your effort should be focused on your community instead of enforcing a FOSS philosophy upon a group that may not have any interest in doing so.

If you are creating a new community, this is a different conversation, of course.

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[-] krash@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

This article is two years old, and perhaps discord have improved their accessibility, since this user find it more accessible then matrix. Yes, it's a single usercase, but worth mentioning nonetheless.

I think there are other arguments against Discord that haven't been mentioned: data privacy. I know there was an instance where Discord collected user without their consent, and that is enough for me to avoid the platform.

I much rather use matrix or the horridly old IRC protocol than Discord. Or forums. Or just plain old issues!

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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

To me, I

Matrix for synchronous chat Threadiverse/Fediverse community for announcements and discussion Discourse for forums (smaller possible channels) OpenSource based Software forges like Forgejo (codeberg.org) or gitlab (gitlab.com) for issue tracking, code repo, Dev artfacts, and CI/CD.

The exciting things for these lay in the future though: ForgeFed to federate between forges like codeberg, gitlab, and independent instances of those software, plus federate to whole fediveriverse!

With the fediverse plugin for discourse

the commune app's to take matrix chats and growing them into full posts on fediverse is super exciting to me too

All of these helping to meet people where they are at in Free internet instead of the techno feudal states. There should be work to bridge to those people too, but I hope we can the Free internet better more.

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