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4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right

pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

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[-] denast@lemm.ee 21 points 8 months ago

While I understand why FOSS community hates Discord, I don't know an alternative that is better at everything.

Discord's main problems:

  • Not FOSS / Privacy respectful
  • Hard/Impossible to index/search for data and organize tech support

However alternatives we have are not ideal either:

  1. Old-school web forums
    • Great for info archival / organized tech support
    • Separate accounts for every one of them, different sets of newsletters / email notifications. Basically, to efficiently be active on several forums you have to manually log in to each on regular basis and check what's new
    • Due to slower pace of communication, it's harder to just log in and "hang out" with community, everybody is more of a pen pal.

  1. FOSS messaging applications (e.g. Matrix since that's what most use)
    • Info archival is even worse then on Discord. Every time I tried to search for anything useful on Matrix I would give up due to poor results and HUGE delays for every search
    • Because most communities use a single Matrix chat, it's a huge disorganized mess for any communication and tech support. There's often 2-3 concurrent conversations in a single room and some just stop abruptly due to it getting confusing to keep up
    • it's FOSS and Private, though

Feel free to downvote me for this, but I think that Github for support & issue tracking and Discord for community hang out spot is currently the lesser evil approach until better Foss tools arrive

[-] dog@suppo.fi 2 points 8 months ago

Spaces have been a thing for over 2 years now.

[-] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Spaces are just group chats in a trenchcoat

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago
[-] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Not really. They don't show up in your dms, they don't take 1 minutes to join after clicking the "join" button, they have great permission management.

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