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These don't offer the core UX of Discord, which is being able to jump between many communities from a single app/login.
by apitman 10mo ago
These don't offer the core UX of Discord, which is being able to jump between many communities from a single app/login.
- immibis 10mo agoNo open thing can ever do that. By virtue of openness, there are many copies of open things whereas your requirement requires there to be just one.
- apitman 10mo agoI think you could get pretty close with OAuth2. You could also have the frontend be a centralized app, but allow people to host their own servers. If the entity controlling the frontend goes off the rails you still have a pretty simple exit strategy.
- immibis 10mo agoOAuth2 is a failed protocol - it's more of a set of guidelines for vendors to implement proprietary authentication systems, all incompatible with each other.
- apitman 10mo agoThere's nothing stopping you from building interoperable protocols on top of OAuth2. I've done it a couple times. OpenID Connect is another example. OAuth2 has some worts, but I think it's worth the tradeoffs.
- arunc 10mo agoZulip does. It's as easy as discord, if not better!
- apitman 10mo agoI looked into Zulip a couple years ago and they didn't support this. Have they implemented OAuth2 or something since then? Specifically being able to log in once and be able to jump between any number of self hosted servers.
- arunc 10mo agoSorry, I'm not sure. Please reach out to their dev team at https://chat.zulip.org https://chat.zulip.org