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While looking for Discord alternatives I came across this project which looks like a great alternative for the kinds of Discord servers centered around Open Source projects and organizations. Ones where live chat and voice rooms aren't the focus.

It's a combination of forums and knowledge base that would be perfect for this use case.

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[–] markstos@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

The marketing mixes metaphors, talking about gardening, growing, curating… all part of sustainable process that includes plants dying.

It also uses words like forever and permanent.

Having content live forever is at odds with metaphors of the natural world, where things naturally die.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Well permaculture is a thing in gardening ^^

I mean, it's not "forever" as in "until the end of all things", but as much set and forget as I would like in a knowledgebase (and in a garden).

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I think the metaphors refer to different aspects of the project. The gardening refers to a more deliberate, small scale, cultivated experience tailored to your community, which is opposed to commercial factory farms that produce a monoculture on a massive scale for profit.

The permanence refers to the fact that you own and control the data, so you are in control of its lifecycle, not a third party that could kill it at their discretion.