This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They wonโt tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole unavailable to the outside world and everything shared is a privacy nightmare. Posting this, pinning it here, and locking it is one of the biggest trolls possible. It pisses me off every time I log in. โEveryone else does itโ is the excuse of idiots. Discord makes absolutely no sense to anyone that actually cares to look into it, read the user agreement, and ask sane questions about what they are doing.
What people donโt get is that self-hosting a Discord-like is not a solution. The idea is to have a fallback in case the server goes down, and Discord serves that role well.
Itโs so the admins can communicate when the server is down. Would you rather they use Twitter?
Donโt we already have a Matrix Channel for that? Even if they wanted a lemmy.world specific Space itโs still Far better than proprietary Discord. I mean isnโt it already encouraged to link Matrix for secure messaging, why not just use a Space on Matrix for lemmy.world support and communication.
Discord is a chat program that usually devolves into garbage memes and off-topic nonsense instantly.
Thisโฆ Is somehow different from Lemmy other than the chat vs forum aspect?
Uh He never said it has to be self-hosted though, so this already sounds like a strawman argument. Only one who has mentioned self hosting in this thread is you.
People want something that is secure and respects privacy, they could simply use the Matrix channel, or create their own Matrix space specific to lemmy.world , both of these would be better options for the users than to try and get them to use Discord which is a proprietary corporate service that is not only prone to security problems but also has some serious privacy concerns due to being corporate owned.
An admin complaining about downvotes doesnโt inspire confidence in the running of the instance.
