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

  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I think a time will eventually come where we should introduce a chat group… but only once we’ve saturated the available bandwidth that this core community provides. Until then, we should focus on directing conversations into community text posts to drum up activity & interest rather than hiding them with a sidechannel.

    FWIW: when the day does come, I’d rather we don’t use Discord. Part of my aversion to Discord is personal – I think it’s a bloated and annoying application – but I mainly just don’t feel like it’s apropos to Lemmy’s culture. We’re on a federated FOSS community, so let’s keep to that and use a federated FOSS chat protocol (i.e.: matrix).

  • Fedora@lemmy.haigner.me
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    1 year ago

    No. Discord hosts anime communities already. I see no reason to create another Discord server since we have our place here already.

  • jmp242@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I’m going to suggest Matrix (or an old school IRC) over Discord at this point. No reason to direct from lemmy back to a closed commercial ecosystem.

  • 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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      1 year ago

      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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    1 year ago

    For now rather not, If we must have something then I would like it to be self hosted and FOSS.