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Howdy,

I'm an avid Discord user and always involved in the Discord communities of various subreddits and the Reddit discord itself.

I'm also interested in developing third party apps for Lemmy, and would like a community where I can chat and bounce ideas off others on the subject. Discord normally is the easiest as it's real time chat and whatnot.

Is there an official Lemmy Discord server available? Or perhaps one for developers?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Jerboa app has a matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#jerboa-dev:matrix.org

So does lemmy itself: https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy:matrix.org

Matrix is to discord, like what lemmy is to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cool, just set mine up. The fediverse is a pretty big place. Here's a couple of pages that helped me figure it out.

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-to-use-matrix/

https://joinmatrix.org/servers/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A matrix chat would make a lot more sense than Discord, a centralized, closed source, for profit operation.

Unsurprisingly, there is already one: https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-space:matrix.org

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Discord is really bad for technical discussions because information gets lost and isn't available outside of Discord. An open IRC server would be better suited for this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Please just use a matrix room.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

but why? It's like jumping from the frying pan into the flames. Discord is corporate owned, has terrible privacy policies and can't be searched. The content is a nightmare to find and it's just a BAD idea all up. If people thought reddit was bad, just wait for the discord of the discordocolipse when it comes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to know, too. Would also make sharing new communities easier, because it's not without its problems directly on Lemmy right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, was thinking the same thing. Reaching into the pool of users from other social medias / communities is a key to growth. So as long as we're not just promoting Lemmy like a bot and rather spreading the word that it's here.

As of right now, there's not a whole lot of talk about Lemmy elsewhere besides Reddit. Would really help SEO even for Lemmy itself branching into larger communities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I donβ€˜t think there is.

There is nothing stopping you from creating a developer discord.

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