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[–] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All you have to do is bridge the two together and have the Matrix one shown more prominently.

[–] UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you expect your average Discord user to bother going through such hoops?

[–] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry. What I meant was that the project maintainers should do that, so the Discord users can use Discord but Matrix is still the main option.

[–] someacnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maintainers. The people that make the project.

[–] someacnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thought we werr talking about the communities.

[–] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While the community is often what is providing the information, one person or group is the one creating and distributing the Discord server. You can't have an entire community create a Discord server; one person has to do that, and it's most often the project maintainers. I was saying that the people creating the Discord servers should also create Matrix spaces and bridge the two together.

[–] someacnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm, interesting. I mean, I personally do not engage in specific projects. In my case, I did not find e.g. large enough mathematics server and PL community server in Matrix. This made me rarely visit matrix..