Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects : opensource

[+] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Depends what you use it for, there's some great servers for a lot of things. I don't really care about platforms and basically use them all. Certain people really hate Discord but the alternatives don't have many interesting things on them, and the people who use them aren't a very diverse group. Checking all the right FOSS and feature boxes is nice but it's not what actually makes a platform good to use.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How to make a discord account? I get so many captchas and would have to enter a phone number but all the free ones online don't work.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

USE REVOLT INSTEAD

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Richard M. Stallman vibes.

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[+] [email protected] -13 points 11 months ago (18 children)

Ahhh, yet another "Discord bad" post. Let's see what alternatives they propose. After all, just telling me I made the wrong choice isn't productive right?

There are great FOSS alternatives to Discord or Slack. SourceHut has been investing in IRC by building more accessible services like chat.sr.ht. Other great options include Matrix and Zulip. Please consider these services before you reach for their proprietary competitors.

Hahaha hahaha. Good fucking joke.

There's a reason Discord is a million times more usable than all of those, and it's not just network effect.

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I'm well aware discord is going to enshittify itself eventually. It's inevitable. However quite frankly as long as that hasn't happened yet, it will remain by far the best option. I am not going to knee-cap my project by using a Discord "alternative" that barely works.

The day Discord dies will be a massive loss for the internet. That hasn't happened yet. But it will. And it's not going to be a loss just because of all the communities locked in on it. It's going to be a loss because it's the best damn community chat software and there's no replacement.

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Leave us alone OMG i understand you are purists but be realistic as well, you need to go where people are to advertise your project and reach. We can use discord for our projects without it meaning we aren’t for your general privacy.

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[+] [email protected] -30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah gonna keep using discord since it’s the best. No amount of daily discord bad threads will stop me.

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