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Giving into the status quo is not going to change it. Free software projects aren't really free they make people sign up for nonfree platforms to collaborate.
by Seirdy 5y ago
Giving into the status quo is not going to change it. Free software projects aren't really free they make people sign up for nonfree platforms to collaborate.
The biggest projects are typically on IRC, mailing lists, and online forums. Linux, ffmpeg, practically every Linux or BSD distro, Git, nginx, postgresql, systemd, neovim, Freedesktop, etc.
Practically none of the software I use on a daily basis has a significant Discord presence.
- brabel 5y agoYou're right, but many of the newish projects are on Discord: Rust, Julia, Deno... I've seen many others that I can't remember now.
- faho 5y agoThe biggest projects have enough momentum that they can be on whatever communication channels they want - if Linux decided to switch to avian carriers tomorrow, they'd still have thousands of people talking over that. >neovim Neovim is on twitter, and doesn't have a mailing list. They also offer matrix and IRC (presumably bridged). See https://neovim.io/community/ https://neovim.io/community/