Comment on FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like?
Skavau@piefed.social 13 hours agoSame reason the Fediverse does. Because a would-be piece of software can’t scale without it. If each instance is entirely disconnected, then you can’t interchange between different communities on them without new accounts. This depresses growth.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Barring the single account, I want them entirely disconnected though. Discord had not suffered in growth because of a lack of interaction.
Centralization is irrelevant for what users want outside of a niche. The average user doesn’t care.
xz25@opensocial.at 7 hours ago
@Skavau @ieGod OK but you see how our goal is to make that stuff matter to users, right? Getting more users isn't the goal.
I have never heard anyone complain that they have to choose an email provider.
Skavau@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Why? You could always self-host a federated Discord alternative and not federate it with anywhere else if you wanted it like that. You can use it like that and others can utilise its federation functions. Why is Federation presumably desirable for you when it comes to Lemmy but not Discord?
Federation is necessary here for long-term resistance to corporate greed and decline. It isn’t a selling point specifically for the individual user experience here.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Snuck in an edit that touches some or your points. I’m not on Lemmy because of federation, that’s incidental. I’m here because it’s another option to explore. But I still use reddit, too, because the community is there.
Skavau@piefed.social 9 hours ago
I can assure you here that the majority here will always want federation in anything even if it makes the sign-up process more complicated slightly to new users. For many reasons.
And sure, features also matter. If they didn’t, then Matrix would be already winning here.