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Drew DeVault on the biggest threats to FOSS and some proposed solutions (fosstodon.org)

submitted 1 week ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Some thoughts on the comments on Discord:

I can understand most of the arguments against Discord, and there are some problematic communies on it of course, but I'm not sure I understand how using Discord over an alternative puts someone more at risk of exposure to those communities. People are free to join and leave servers at will, so is the issue that these servers built around FOSS projects have toxic communities? If so, how would being on any other platform solve this?

Speaking from experience, just about all the servers I'm in have some kind of "no politics" rule, a very inclusive "be nice" rule, and a pronoun selector. Maybe it's just the servers I join, but hate speech gets people banned pretty quickly.

Anyway, there are plenty of arguments that can be made about discoverability, lack of control, privacy, and the non-FOSS nature of the platform to justify its presence on that list.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

and a pronoun selector.

Which is sort of silly because Discord profiles themselves have a place for pronouns and you can customize them per server (without needing to pay for anything unlike other per-server profile customizations). So, if anything, that shows that these servers are trying to be inclusive.