Was wondering if any of you would like a Discord server for the community or would it be worth waiting a bit?

  • 佐藤カズマ@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’d honestly rather keep things open source and get a Spacebar chat server set up. I don’t think it’ll be long before Discord goes the way of Reddit.

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      I’ve been feeling this way about Discord for a while now. Their month long birthday spam was the icing on the cake for me.

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          So, so fucking stupid. That was the last straw that caused me to delete my account and never look back. It’s turning into Twitter, but run by someone not named Elon Musk.

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            True. I never understood the need for it to be so mainstream social media-esque. I do understand that to some degree a chat application is social media but it doesn’t need to have so many unnecessary “features” (aka “bloat”). The last good feature was desktop screensharing.

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              At the end of the day, it feels like Discord lost sight of their market somewhere. Chat apps need to support chat, and do so well. Does Discord do that? I…wouldn’t say so. Not anymore, at least.

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      Firsr time I’ve heard of Spacebar. I like the name but could Matrix also be an option? I’ve been using that for quite some time and a lot of open source projects have a Matrix space nowadays.

      edit: Spacebar is actually Fosscord.

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        Yeah I should have clarified that last bit, so my apologies for leaving that information out. But I’d be down with any free and open source solution.

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        At the moment I don’t think any of their build info is openly available. But I could probably help with the set up once that does become available. Do you happen to know anyone willing to host though? That’s going to be the question.