Comment on Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 months agoIt’s because Discord provides a functionality Lemmy does not yet offer. Forums having a connected chatroom is not a new thing at all, and that was true with subreddits and discords. Easy, instant communication for the community, particularly it’s management, is useful. Back when I moderated forums, the mod teams had a private mod forum, but also hung out in thw IRC chat.
The problem isn’t the existence of a chatroom, it’s that they used Discord. But I don’t believe there’s a fediverse alternative for chat functionality like that, at least not yet.
Discord is also a useful reference point for new users who may need guidanton how to use lemmy, but already know how to use discord. Call it onboarding if you like.
I get the need to have a chat, we also setup one for the moderators of one of my community
Matrix is a pretty good alternative to Discord, with moderation possible via github.com/Gnuxie/Draupnir.
It’s not a perfect one to one match, but Lemmy is not one for Reddit either, still we are all here.
rckclmbr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Why not just use IRC?
SheeEttin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Discord is a modern platform a lot of people enjoy using. IRC isn’t.
Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 10 months ago
Zoomers can’t deal without their embedded images. Clicking a link to view a meme is so 1990s.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Nice domain name!
Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 10 months ago
Thanks!
ninchuka@lemmy.one 10 months ago
No media support and closing the client and you DC from the channel, not ideal for modern use cases such as being on mobile devices or a laptop on a train and your connection drops while you go through a tunnel
rckclmbr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Good points. I’ve always gotten around the terminal issue by using irssi + screen
Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 10 months ago
We’ve had IRC bouncers since at least psybnc in the 90s…
ninchuka@lemmy.one 10 months ago
And how many average users would know about those or bother to either set one up or go sign up on one