for many years I was prejudiced against #discord, thinking it was a gamer’s environment
I always looked to Slack when it came to real-time communication for business/foss
well, I’ve been positively surprised by discord for communicating with the foss project community
#foss #opensource #community #oss !foss@beehaw.org !opensource@lemmy.ml
cc @foss @opensource
Funny you would think that using the fediverse. Discord has exactly the same problems Reddit and Twitter had where at any moment someone for whatever reason could alter the deal significantly.
Honestly, I’ve been trying to find a good alternative to Discord for a while. Matrix is promising. But I tried self hosting it a few times and there were too many technical gotchas specifically in my environment (combination of Cloudflare tunnel and Traefik).
I haven’t checked on the progress of Matrix 2.0 in a while but once that is stable I’ll give it another shot. The eternal problem after that is convincing a critical mass of friends to join you. Most of my friends have decent moral compasses and they still don’t understand why I have not touched Reddit since July.