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How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? (dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28930199

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[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

This is a fantastic read. I wasnt around for the prime days of forums but I did experience them a bit.

I'm becoming extremely concerned about the number of topics and projects that are migrating to Discord. My main issue is that it is not and never will be publically indexed, and among other problems, is itself a corporate walled garden we consider to be "one of the good ones".

I really hope we find and establish a "low executive cost" solution before the next time Discord fumbles (which is inevitable) and we can claw some of that activity back.

But people are so used to seamless voice and video chat nowadays - and that's a technical hurdle that AFAIK, no open-source self-hostable projects have come close to solving.

[-] sep@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Matrix+elements is very easy to selfhost in any homelab. works well enough for goverments. Federated and easy end to end encryption. And one can easily set up a web archive bridge forvarchiveable rooms.

That beeing said i still think IRC is the best for pure text chat.

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

But neither have seamless voice chat/screen sharing, which is a staple of Discord that users are very used to.

[-] sep@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I do not know what you talk about. I use screen sharing and voice chat daily on elements with our own hosted matrix server.

Edit: i felt wrong saying "voice chat" what even is that. I make regular calls and video calls with screen sharing in elements ;)

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That is interesting, the last time i tried Element/matrix it did not have these features. Can I ask, is your screen sharing of a quality that you can stream videos and games at equivilant frame rates?

[-] sep@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I have never tried that. We use it to share powerpoints in meetings or do troubleshooting together. Or I use it to do family video calls with the kids. Fps are never an issue. There are times where there are compression artifacts tho. Especially if someone have a bad or variable connection. On a buss or a train or similar.