Why are FOSS platforms like Matrix having such a hard time getting users to migrate from Discord? Because of PluralKit.

    • Grail (capitalised)OP
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      9 months ago

      No, I know dozens of systems personally, and the systems I know are definitely a tiny fraction of all the systems on Discord.

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        9 months ago

        Fine.

        Dozens * dozens * hundreds of communities perhaps unknown = thousands

        Still not enough to make a meaningful difference.

        Look, I know I’m being a hardass about this, but progress is not achieved through wishful thinking, but by understanding market forces and ensuring the inevitable consequences of them are as minimally harmful to marginalized populations as possible.

        What happens when discord pulls a Reddit and disables bot access for some bullshit money reason? Then all PluralKit users are SoL

        As presumptuous as I know this is, what your post and article should have been about is an explanation of how Pluralkit benefits you in the discord workflow, and how that might be best adapted to better and more user respectful platforms so that the transition of some groups becomes easier once discord starts pulling the inevitable shit.