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Good, but what about Rust project jumping to Discord instead? They should have used Matrix as well.
by shmerl 7y ago
Good, but what about Rust project jumping to Discord instead? They should have used Matrix as well.
- gdxhyrd 7y agoYeah, that was a bummer for me. Discord is admittedly awesome, but not in line with openness.
- kibwen 7y agoEach individual Rust team (which govern individual aspects of Rust) got to choose where to jump to; I believe one did choose to use Matrix, but the others mostly chose Discord (because there was already a very large Rust user community there), a few chose Zulip, and one is still on IRC. If Matrix clients were more well-developed and widely-used, I believe there would be good incentive for them to transition--the Rust developers already have enough on their plate without feeling like they need to also develop their own communication protocol.
- shmerl 7y agoI still find it inappropriate for a FOSS project to promote closed non federated communication tools. Hopefully they won't be stuck with Discord because "we already switched to it".
- stjohnswarts 7y agoI think they are just being pragmatic. No one, not even RMS, ever felt that open source needed to be open source from bottom to top, just the final product. You have to be pragmatic in this life. We can't wait for open source processors running on open source hardware on and open source OS compiled on an open source compiler before something gets released. I find it entirely appropriate for them to be pragmatic and use the tools to get done what they need to get done.
- shmerl 7y agoPersonally, I see no problem with using Matrix for pragmatism reasons included. Your argument could make sense, if good quality FOSS IMs weren't an option. But they are. So I see no reason to turn to Discord and will not going to use it myself.
- glandium 7y ago"not even RMS". You underestimate RMS.