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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ayla@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 90 points 2 months ago

Especially Open Source stuff.

[-] dan@upvote.au 36 points 2 months ago

I genuinely don't understand why some open source communities rely so heavily on Discord.

[-] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 12 points 2 months ago

Because you need people to build a community, and like it or not, most people are on discord

There are other reasons but I think this is the main one

[-] Zworf@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago

Yes but it's a small effort to sign up for somewhere else. Matrix is just as good and they do care about your privacy.

I find it really weird for a project like Home Assistant where the whole goal of the package is to wrestle control of your home from the big tech clouds. Only to put their own comms data in a big tech cloud... :X

[-] Glasgow@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Matrix is not as good. It’s getting there with spaces and matrix 2.0 on the horizon but it’s still a bit clunky.

[-] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

most people are on discord

There's a lot of people on Discord (around 200 million monthly active users) but it's still the smallest out of all the major messaging services that support group chats. For example, Telegram has over double the number of users, and WhatsApp has 10x the users.

For open source projects in particular, something that integrates with Github and Gitlab login (like Gitter which is now powered by Matrix) is a better choice, as developers are practically guaranteed to have one of those accounts.