for many years I was prejudiced against #discord, thinking it was a gamer’s environment
I always looked to Slack when it came to real-time communication for business/foss
well, I’ve been positively surprised by discord for communicating with the foss project community
#foss #opensource #community #oss !foss@beehaw.org !opensource@lemmy.ml
cc @foss @opensource
Discord is terrible for both public and private communications. It locks public discussions (which would otherwise happen somewhere open like a traditional forum) away somewhere you can’t search without logging in, meaning you can’t get quick answers without already knowing where you need to look. It also offers no E2EE on its ‘private’ chats, so presumably datamines everything you type.