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[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Please, for the love of all gods or none, if you're an open source project, DO NOT USE discord!!! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!! There are multiple open source applications/services that you can use.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every FOSS project:

  • Discord
  • Github
[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To those who want to have their software used by others:

Matrix/Element, Stoat, & Codeberg are the ways to go

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In short, using Discord for your free software/open source (FOSS) software project is a very bad idea. Free software matters — that’s why you’re writing it, after all. Using Discord partitions your community on either side of a walled garden, with one side that’s willing to use the proprietary Discord client, and one side that isn’t. It sets up users who are passionate about free software — i.e. your most passionate contributors or potential contributors — as second-class citizens.

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Stoat is the best Discord alternative. Also, Codeberg for Github alternative

[–] DanielBP@fosstodon.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

@clmbmb @Stzyxh

Fully agree with Discord argument.

Regarding Codeberg instead of GitHub, I disagree. Codeberg's aggressive anti-bot protection system frequently locks out many IP ranges from the country I live (Brazil). It's extreme policy on forks and private repositories also limits the functionality of the platform.

[–] Stzyxh@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

The Developer did a poll on mastodon asking where the project should be hosted and nearly anyone voted for Codeberg.

It's sad that the anti-bot protection blocks you out of Codeberg, but its still far better than Github.

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

I never said anything about not hosting on codeberg. On the contrary, I host my projects there and encourage people to do it too and even donate to them.