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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

submitted 8 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

a free forum

"Oh great, I'll have to create another fucking account" - me, already having some 300 accounts in my key-vault...

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make unless you're saying no one has to create a Discord account, or have to download an app, or have to find an invite to locate the server. My keys are auto-generated and auto-saved, simple 20 second process. Forums are also a lot easier to sign up for than Discord, if you're worried about making another account I don't know what to tell ya because every service requires it.

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You set up a discord account once. When you want to join a project discord all you have to do is click the invite link and hit „accept“. Bam. Done. No need to join a forum. No need to keep track of another website and check if you got a personal message from someone or something. The benefit is that it is all one location.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

I'd much rather have email for forums (Linux kernel style) than discord. I'll even take IRC

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It’s undoubtedly nice during that step of the process, but afterwards you’re on a platform that may not be well suited to the purpose. It’d be better just to make the new account on an actual forum. Granted, I use Bitwarden now, so I don’t sweat making new accounts anymore.

This makes me wonder if there is a centralized system for forums. We have stackexchange already, but that’s really designed to be a question and answer site.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Discourse, NodeBB and Flarum are all currently working on ActivityPub federation support. The first two have some basic support already available.

Edit: I read "decentralized". The "centralized" system for forums is obviously Reddit.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This makes me wonder if there is a centralized system for forums.

Is this not what Lemmy is, to a certain extent?

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is not a Forum…

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

No, but it has several forum-like features. Each Lemmy community is kind of like a mini-forum, with posts, threads, comments, etc. Lemmy is certainly more forum-like than Discord is.

[–] summerof69@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

Should we tell him that he doesn't need more than 1 discord account?

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I'm probably way out of the loop but from the perspective of devs getting to contribute, don't stuff like Discourse ship with "login with your Github account" already? Or Google, or Facebook, or...

~~Also, please, it's 1 click nowadays to make your browser remember your logins for you, if it comes down to laziness~~