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It's because Discord provides a functionality Lemmy does not yet offer. Forums having a connected chatroom is not a new thing at all, and that was true with subreddits and discords. Back when I moderated forums, the mod teams had a private mod forum, but also hung out in the IRC chat. Easy, instant communication for the community, particularly it's management, is useful.
The problem isn't the existence of a chatroom, it's that they used Discord. But I don't believe there's a fediverse alternative for chat functionality like that, at least not yet. So it's a matter of which centralized platform you choose: Discord, Matrix, etc
But Discord is also a useful reference point for new users who may need guidance on how to use lemmy, but already know how to use discord. It's familiar, and popular. Call it onboarding if you like. It's using Discord's platform to help ease users into Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole.
Why not just use IRC?
Zoomers can't deal without their embedded images. Clicking a link to view a meme is so 1990s.
Nice domain name!
Thanks!
No media support and closing the client and you DC from the channel, not ideal for modern use cases such as being on mobile devices or a laptop on a train and your connection drops while you go through a tunnel
Good points. I've always gotten around the terminal issue by using irssi + screen
We've had IRC bouncers since at least psybnc in the 90s...
And how many average users would know about those or bother to either set one up or go sign up on one
Discord is a modern platform a lot of people enjoy using. IRC isn't.
I get the need to have a chat, we also setup one for the moderators of one of my community
Matrix is a pretty good alternative to Discord, with moderation possible via https://github.com/Gnuxie/Draupnir.
It's not a perfect one to one match, but Lemmy is not one for Reddit either, still we are all here.