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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)

submitted 6 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

That server is under the Matrix.org fleet. It’s like saying Edge isn’t Chrome.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The server itself doesn't matter, you can migrate it to AWS or your own physical server if you oenn the domain

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

The server does matter when it comes to who is collecting all of the metadata, data, attachments. …And having that all that data centralized around a single entity is a problem.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

In this case that would be Mozilla, not the host

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Matrix.org hosts Mozilla’s Matrix server. Further, the way all data is synced to all servers means if someone with a Matrix.org ID joins your room (which is most users), all data is synced to the home server. Almost all of the data is in Matrix.org’s possession & with the servers being as expensive as they are to run, more orgs shutdown when popular causing users to flock to the mother instance.