1 yr. ago • 83%

Potential Discord Server

Was wondering if any of you would like a Discord server for the community or would it be worth waiting a bit?

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I'm going to suggest Matrix (or an old school IRC) over Discord at this point. No reason to direct from lemmy back to a closed commercial ecosystem.

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- Precisely as I stated earlier. I think Fosscord is probably the best solution, once we have access to a Spacebar (i.e. Fosscord) client build (their entire site has been pulled down).
  
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  I've never heard of Fosscord - why that vs Matrix?
  
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I'd honestly rather keep things open source and get a Spacebar chat server set up. I don't think it'll be long before Discord goes the way of Reddit.

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- I’ve been feeling this way about Discord for a while now. Their month long birthday spam was the icing on the cake for me.
  
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  Discord, Reddit, Twitter are in the same boat in my eyes.
  
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  This and the unnecessary change to the usernames.
  
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  Glad I'm not insane. Thanks for confirming my opinion.
  
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- Firsr time I've heard of Spacebar. I like the name but could Matrix also be an option? I've been using that for quite some time and a lot of open source projects have a Matrix space nowadays.
  
  edit: Spacebar is actually Fosscord.
  
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  Yeah I should have clarified that last bit, so my apologies for leaving that information out. But I'd be down with any free and open source solution.
  
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- Do you know how to set up Spacebar?
  
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  At the moment I don't think any of their build info is openly available. But I could probably help with the set up once that does become available. Do you happen to know anyone willing to host though? That's going to be the question.
  
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I think a time will eventually come where we should introduce a chat group... but only once we've saturated the available bandwidth that this core community provides. Until then, we should focus on directing conversations into community text posts to drum up activity & interest rather than hiding them with a sidechannel.

FWIW: when the day does come, I'd rather we don't use Discord. Part of my aversion to Discord is personal -- I think it's a bloated and annoying application -- but I mainly just don't feel like it's apropos to Lemmy's culture. We're on a federated FOSS community, so let's keep to that and use a federated FOSS chat protocol (i.e.: matrix).

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I also suggest Matrix instead of Discord.

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What's the concern of using the /r/anime's server? Note that I'm working on the assumption that we're an offshoot of Reddit's community here.

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For now rather not, If we must have something then I would like it to be self hosted and FOSS.

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Discourse is FOSS and is fairly easy to host. I agree with sentiments that running right back to close source is probably not what the bulk of people here want. But then again most people use steam so I am a walking contradiction.

https://www.discourse.org/

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- I think if better alternatives existed, and were close to being as convenient, people would jump.
  
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If we want an open chat service, I'dd look into Matrix, which is federated like kbin/lemmy. Its also a work in progress, but it does support both text chat and voice/video chat. And it does have rudimentary "spaces" which lets you group channels and such, which makes it easy for people to discover the channels in our community.

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