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  • This kind of lack of perspective is why open services always struggle. It seems like it’s the only tool the advocates of it use since they fall into the “I have a hammer to everything that isn’t a nail doesn’t matter” trap.

    This post could have been a list of free instances to join. But instead it offers people to learn hosting and sysadmin stuff.

    I’m sure there will be a bunch of replies trying to teach me how easy it is… But I am a sysadmin. I’m not your audience, and some people don’t see a difference.

    People who use corporate platforms do it because it’s easy. Joining matrix instances is pretty easy. Presenting Matrix like people need to host servers to use it is detrimental.



  • No, I totally agree with that part. I wish people would move. I wish it was possible just to convince them to use a slightly different model of things. I’m absolutely disgusted in people’s inability to adapt or adjust to even the slightest changes. I’m definitely not advocating for them.

    But PieFed is really a reddit model. People using Discord for chat and that type of more instant communication you really need both PieFed and Matrix.

    Sorry if you’re the one I claimed was out of touch, I shouldn’t talk to people I don’t know like that. Hope I made my case.


  • PieFed is a reddit clone.

    Discord communities need a discord clone. It’s not rocket science.

    Say matrix and I’d have agreed it’s good enough for a lot of people’s needs… But so is IRC. And that’s never been good enough to migrate Discord users.

    The only way to kill Discord is a Discord clone like fosscord/Spacebar or some of the other similar projects.

    You don’t replace Twitter with reddit and you don’t replace Discord with it either. That clearly, CLEARLY has not met the majority of users needs or we wouldn’t be having this conversation.