There’s a certain irony making this comment on Lemmy.
Comment on State of the Discord - A Lesson
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Those saying “just self-host Matrix/Stoat/XMPP”, do not understand the power of network effects. If people are too lazy to sign up on your custom server, and you end up with 50% of the users you would have gotten if you used Discord, is that worth it? What if it was only 10%?
I wish there were a solution to this. Interoperability sounds nice until you have multiple competing standards (like Matrix and XMPP)
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Well I’m not trying to start a community around helping people, I’m just a participator. If I wantsd to maximize the number of people I could help, I might move back to reddit
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
I understand that POV, but if people want help, they’ll go to where it is. Walk the talk of FOSS. That’s how we’ll build better communities.
Lemmert@reddthat.com 4 days ago They won’t go to Lemmy. Anybody getting into self hosting will not just know what Lemmy is. Nor will they per se care for FOSS to the same extent you do. So having people helping around on conventional platforms seems perfectly valid to me.
They could always advertise a Matrix room and bridge conversations if the moderators really wanted to as well, instead of isolating themselves.
ICastFist@programming.dev 6 days ago
The solution is for everyone to migrate to Jami, which is obviously the better option!
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