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Discord and github are the two platforms barely anyone dares to speak about. The Foss community barely mentions the usage of such platforms, despite nearly all of projects use discord as the support line.

It is really such a shame, since those projects make a significant contribution to open source software in one area. but just shits itself in the other.

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jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
At least public githubs aren’t difficult to access and/or crawl. The big issue with Discord is that there is a wealth of information locked behind a proprietary system.

Unlike forums or even reddit, there is not way to get to most of the information posted on discord.

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- KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I don’t understand, of course we can access it?
  
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  - SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You can only get it if you install Discord.
    
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    KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    No, GDPR laws allows me to download all data and also enforcing its deletion without using the app ever again
    
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  - jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    A lot of discord content is private, and those that aren’t require you to have discord to search. On top of that, I’m pretty sure you need to join a server before you can search it’s contents.
    
    Since I don’t use discord, there is no real way for me to access content hosted on it. Compared to Reddit or a Forum, I don’t need to be a member of the community to access information shared there.
    
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    KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    But the data is accessible and a migration can be done by those who posted it? Depends on local laws I guess… their eula states everything you send in discord now belongs to then, but that is not allowed in the eu and many other countries
    
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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Codeberg ftw!

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Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Free software contributors I hang out with do mention the likes of irc, matrix, codeberg, and activitypub’ising git a lot.

No time to waste mentioning inferior software that’s abusive.

Let alone use it.

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xorollo@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It would mean a lot to me if open source projects used op n source coms for discussions. I tried discord recently and couldnt even get prast email verification. I went into a server, asked questions and couldn’t check to see if they were answered. Sorry people I ghosted!

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