I am glad this person realizes this in a post.
I have seen this movement since 2 years ago and is really annoying.
The only thing I could do was trying to promote Matrix (in some case they didn’t even know that it existed) and help them to bridge rooms as the only solution acceptable for them.
Which is a huge thorn in the side of the Rust community. Moving from IRC to Discord as their official platform for help/development is laughable when they could’ve simply moved to Libera.Chat or done the switch to Matrix.
Why would they do that!?! What a weird move for mostly staunch FOSS advocates.
If you move to Libera.Chat you are also already in Matrix.
Perceptive readers might have noticed that most of these arguments can be generalized. This article is much the same if we replace “Discord” with “GitHub”, for instance, or “Twitter” or “YouTube”. If your project depends on proprietary infrastructure, I want you to have a serious discussion with your collaborators about why. What do your choices mean for the long-term success of your project and the ecosystem in which it resides? Are you making smart investments, or just using tools which are popular or that you’re already used to?
Is there a good alternative for GitHub that respects privacy?
I hate discord I don’t get it and I don’t like it
