#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

• It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.

• It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!

I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.

• And I'd rather subscribe to the #LKML and see my inbox getting hosed than using any shitty #SaaS!

Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.

I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools

• Public Chat? IRC!
• Group Voicechat? Mumble.
• #Documentation? #mkDocs-material.
• 1:1 Chats? XMPP+OMEMO.
• E2EE Group Chats? #deltaChat.
• E2EE Calls? #WebCall.
• Filehosting? #IPFS, #BitTorrent, oshi.at, etc. ...
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Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.

@mattly all of the aformentioned media are inherently ableist and #Discord is an #InformationBlackhole with unacceotable #ToS!

• Whereas written #documentation is trivially transferable.and translateable: #TextToSpeech works for over a quarter century fine...

@drewdevault Using #Discord for any serious communication should disqalify the projects and those using it from being taken serious in #FLOSS development at all.

• Discord is an #InformationBlackhole with unacceptable #ToS and no good way to export and search anything from it.

At least with #Mailinglists and #IRC we had the latter problem solved, and whilst a lot of people criticize #GitHub for all the valid reasons, one does not need to have a GitHub account to merely read issues and access documentation published there.

• Also it's easier to setup a #Webpage with #mkDocs that provides a #searchable #documentation with #GithubPages and a custom #Domain than to even bother trying to customize some #Bot for Discord...

Not to mention Discord has a shitload ob absurd and archaic limitations that have no reason to exist, so even if one were okay with using that garbage #SaaS they'd inevitably run into the limit of "#Servers" [or rather #Instances] they can actually access at the same time VERY QUICKLY...