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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. You should consider it too… at a bare minimum have a bridge. If you are a small project that doesn’t have the funds Libera.chat & OFTC exist to be used for this exact purpose.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's my point. You can't ask core devs to do always more work to fit your purity.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It’s not more work--it’s often what should have been chosen in the first place as it meets the minimum requirements for the task, is ‘free’ to use, & isn’t wasteful on resources (both their servers & users’ clients). For those not in a the free/ethical software space this may be untrue, but in the space it’s hypocritical to say your software believes in those values but our communication platforms have a different set of rules. It’s also not just just “purity” but accessibility as Discord has ToS not everyone can agree to & has to comply with US sanctions on who is allowed to use the service that something self or independently-hosted don’t have to deal with. It feels more of the reverse in that you are suggesting communities be poisoned by proprietary platforms.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 9 months ago

It is absolutely more work. Like undeniably so. I've used both matrix and discord. Matrix is absolutely more work. Especially since there's even less people to help you run it. Irc is even more. Again unless people volunteer to do it, I don't have the time.