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Stop Using Discord for Your Open source Communities | mattcen's mumblings (blog.mattcen.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by noodlejetski to c/foss

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Recently I accidentally made a Fediverse post which went viral:

stop using discord for your open source communities

That post is short, punchy, opinionated, and prescriptive, which I suspect is the cause for its virality.

Unfortunately, like many micro-blog posts, it lacks nuance, which many replies highlighted. I made the post to vent my frustration at needing to join a Discord server to interact with a community, so it is far from a measured critique of the subject.

This blog post is an attempt to address those nuances in greater detail. This is not an exhaustive analysis, and I’ve resolved to not let “perfect” be the enemy of “done”.

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[–] Rentlar 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I would much rather be on matrix... but discord sure is convenient.

[–] StrayCatFrump 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Have you tried Revolt? It's supposed to FOSS and offer similar functionality to Discord. I keep meaning to try it, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[–] ArcticCircleSystem 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I do have a few of questions about that site that basically explain why people haven't moved there. Does it have the same level of software support (bots, clients, etc)? Does it have a similarly large set of large and niche communities to Discord? Does it have a barrier to entry as low or lower than Discord? Is there both a large incentive for friend groups and communities to move to Revolt and a large disincentive to stay on Discord that the average person cares about enough to act upon? It doesn't seem like the prognosis for Revolt overtaking Discord is very good, unfortunately. I wish I knew how to overcome all of that and the network effect but I don't, unfortunately. One major problem is that it's not unlikely that Revolt servers could become effectively centralized in practice if it does overtake Discord simply because the vast majority of people to not have the time, knowledge, or resources to read and modify Revolt's code and/or host their own web server. ~Strawberry

[–] martinbasic 1 points 1 year ago

Someone said that Revolt haven't support voice chat and screen sharing, I think that may be the reason why ppl still uses discord

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