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Discord on Flathub is now official (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I mean cool, but good luck convincing the vast majority of users leaving Discord for Matrix.

This development is beneficial for the Linux gaming ecosystem, proprietary be damned.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    All you have to do is bridge the two together and have the Matrix one shown more prominently.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Do you expect your average Discord user to bother going through such hoops?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    Sorry. What I meant was that the project maintainers should do that, so the Discord users can use Discord but Matrix is still the main option.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Project leaders?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Maintainers. The people that make the project.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thought we werr talking about the communities.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    While the community is often what is providing the information, one person or group is the one creating and distributing the Discord server. You can't have an entire community create a Discord server; one person has to do that, and it's most often the project maintainers. I was saying that the people creating the Discord servers should also create Matrix spaces and bridge the two together.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Hmm, interesting. I mean, I personally do not engage in specific projects. In my case, I did not find e.g. large enough mathematics server and PL community server in Matrix. This made me rarely visit matrix..

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Matrix is a better platform for realtime communication, but it has the same issue with needing an account and being difficult to search. Any discussions that take place on Discord or Matrix will be fleeting, as it prioritizes only the most recent discussion in the chat. Thus making long form discussions about particular topics impossible.

    All technical discussions should be archived on a searchable forum. If you are using a source forge like GitHub and GitLab, then public discussions should take place there. There's no better place for discussions and questions about code than in the same place where the code is hosted itself. Platform integrations make it very easy to associate discussions to commits and merge requests.

    While not ideal, even hosted forum platforms like Lemmy and Reddit are still better than using a chat client. If only to serve as a platform for broader public discussions and questions. People are more likely to already have a Lemmy or Reddit account than they are to have a GitHub or GitLab account.

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