Sajadi wrote: ↑2024-03-10, 13:44
The issue with most of the Fediverse is this - Everyone not having a Progressive/Socialist-Communist/Anarchist opinion gets harassed, attacked and blocked and deleted
Then we have no reason to be there. Twitter becoming strongly politicised was one of the reasons I stopped actively using it for Pale Moon. I don't want to get into the same waters again from the other political extreme on a different platform.
Can't we just be social without bogging down into politics and tribalism? Apparently not.
Telegram requiring people's phone numbers (and therefore pretty much a direct line into every user's pocket through their phone; they don't accept land line numbers!) goes against what I'm comfortable requiring from users who want to participate in the community. Plain and simple.
Also, I'm familiar with Telegram "groups" and "group chats" on it, and it literally doesn't provide even near the kind of topic separation and ease of use we have here.
So that leaves some self-hosted solution which we already have in our forum, which can be maintained easily without too much fuss or time spent the way it is set up now.
I'm fine with discord as a backup; it has a desktop application which isn't overly heavy in use (maybe for a 15 year old potato... but come on, man) and can be used from a browser too, so no real threshold there. For now it's kept pretty much unpublished and not actively used, because, in fairness, I just don't have the time.