And often these people don't even contribute anything
Because you are not giving a portion of your audience an open, privacy-respecting way to contribute.
Go ahead and deploy and maintain "an open, privacy-respecting way to contribute" and I'm sure plenty of FOSS devs will be happy to migrate
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.
That's my point. You can't ask core devs to do always more work to fit your purity.
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.
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.
In fact, my most popular project made Slashdot front page 20 years ago, and I was actually using IRC. No help.. Just submitted issues or suggestions. The only donations I got were from people I knew. And donations aren't common for most projects honestly until they get much bigger, or they are operating an online service
There is nothing stopping people setting up communication channels and such on IRC and such though if they don't want to use the others
what was your popular project then?
Not going to say lol. But it got mentioned in a magazine too.. It wasn't massive.. But, got a lot of attention for a short period.. But honestly, gave it up because I got sick defending it against haters. That being said, the same idea got adopted by a few distros soon after. So it's actually good that I did (as it would have ultimately been a waste of time)
Because you are not giving a portion of your audience an open, privacy-respecting way to contribute.
Go ahead and deploy and maintain "an open, privacy-respecting way to contribute" and I'm sure plenty of FOSS devs will be happy to migrate
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.
That's my point. You can't ask core devs to do always more work to fit your purity.
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.
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.
I don't use Discord actually..
In fact, my most popular project made Slashdot front page 20 years ago, and I was actually using IRC. No help.. Just submitted issues or suggestions. The only donations I got were from people I knew. And donations aren't common for most projects honestly until they get much bigger, or they are operating an online service
There is nothing stopping people setting up communication channels and such on IRC and such though if they don't want to use the others
what was your popular project then?
Not going to say lol. But it got mentioned in a magazine too.. It wasn't massive.. But, got a lot of attention for a short period.. But honestly, gave it up because I got sick defending it against haters. That being said, the same idea got adopted by a few distros soon after. So it's actually good that I did (as it would have ultimately been a waste of time)