I’d imagine gatekeeping based on a percentage of FOSS used isn’t going to win many hearts and minds in the long run for our communities. Imagine if the Linux community decried using the Steam Store on FOSS operating systems.
If the tool is best for the job, people will use it. Our role is to make FOSS that tool in each category.
Yeah, and in terms of usability Discord alternatives are really quite substantially behind Discord in terms of functions.
I don’t think the same is with Reddit and Lemmy/Piefed. The distance is not so vast.
Having used Discord, it’s hard to see how anything could be behind it in terms of functionality, since “using nothing” is literally an improvement over Discord.
If you want to make a comprehensive chatroom, and specify how it works to minor details - Revolt (for instance) is far behind. If what Discord is doesn’t appeal to you in the first place, then neither would any of the Discord alternatives.
Discord is supposed to be a chatroom? I thought it was a voice chat service for videogames that didn’t have it built it.
Many people use it exclusively as text chat.
It has extensive text chat
