• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    As someone deeply involved in Foss for many years and with multiple large Foss services running on my back, these constant requests for purity from outsiders will go nowhere until volunteers people step up to do the hard work of setting up and maintaining the infrastructure and management of such Foss solutions in the place of the core developers

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      8 months ago

      ? What’s the difference between setting up a free forum (they’re everywhere) versus setting up Discord channels? It’s the exact same process.

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          8 months ago

          I guess we have different perspectives. Ease, convenience = forums, existing userbase? = Do you prefer Reddit for this reason?, familiarity = forums lol, search-ability = forums, privacy = forums, etc etc.