Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

• dan@upvote.au ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I genuinely don’t understand why some open source communities rely so heavily on Discord.

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  • UprisingVoltage@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because you need people to build a community, and like it or not, most people are on discord

    There are other reasons but I think this is the main one

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    • Zworf@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes but it’s a small effort to sign up for somewhere else. Matrix is just as good and they do care about your privacy.

      I find it really weird for a project like Home Assistant where the whole goal of the package is to wrestle control of your home from the big tech clouds. Only to put their own comms data in a big tech cloud… :X

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      • Glasgow@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Matrix is not as good. It’s getting there with spaces and matrix 2.0 on the horizon but it’s still a bit clunky.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      most people are on discord

      There’s a lot of people on Discord (around 200 million monthly active users) but it’s still the smallest out of all the major messaging services. Telegram has over double the number of users, for example.

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