It’s often not the cost of the software, but the hosting costs, especially on a growing platform.
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umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
this will always happen unless we move to FOSS
GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org 5 months ago
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
platforms can be peer to peer too, with maybe a smaller tracker. i think its viable
GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I think it’s why many decentralised platforms don’t want very big instances, and prefer them to split off into smaller federated sites.
Kaldo@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Hope we get some comparable options yet, I only know of matrix and that one allegedly has tons of security and performance issues.
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Can you list some security/performance/feature comparison between matrix and discord? I don’t have the need for these class of product, but I am trying to get the hype behind discord.
Kaldo@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I don’t know about discord issues, the hype behind is it mostly that it’s free, very convenient, feature rich and can easily integrate bots.
Matrix issues that I read about can be seen here telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07 . I haven’t done my own research tho so I don’t know if all of this is (still) true
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Almost all of those issues are due to federation. Lemmy shares most of them. Considering that we’re on Lemmy, I’d say it’s mostly a non-issue for us. Maybe use something else for encryption-required communications, but other than that it sounds fine to me.
reddthat@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Mattermost does most of the required discord features. (Pun intended)
Is open source and is selfhost-able. I think there are some SaaS hosters if you need them too.
femtech@midwest.social 5 months ago
Yeah, some of us tried to get our work to that but higher ups went with rocket chat.