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Thank you for sharing this article! This prevented me from working on projects and software. Not only FOSS projects should refrain from using Discord. Community-driven projects like Skywind are barring themselves from helping hands, they desperately need, by using proprietary, privacy-threatening software as their way of communication.
I wanted to use Cosmos server but they only support Reddit, Discord and GitHub. I asked them to create a community on a platform that respects it's users. They declined, and their users ass-blasted me for "demanding" that they choose a different service. I can't use a project that has zero support options that don't exploit their users. Makes no sense to me.
You're asking them to set up and maintain another platform for you to ... Checks notes... use their FOSS project? Not contribute to development, just...use? That does not seem worth their time. Certainly sounds demanding to step into a project and tell them to do things differently otherwise you won't honour them with your presence
I think it's safe to assume they created a FOSS project, as well as all of the associated social platforms, for people to use. I don't think it's unrealistic to request that they make a single platform available that doesn't exploit their users for profit.
That's because you have a fundamental misconception regarding the difference between asking a question and making a demand. Here's a hint: one has a "question mark".