Harmony: Chat like Discord. Federated like email

Posted by FinalDestiny 3 hours ago

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Comment by Slow_Hand 1 hour ago

> The Discord bridge mirrors channels, threads, replies and reactions both ways, so a community can try Harmony without splitting in two. Turn it off when everyone has moved, or never.

That's a very thoughtful feature. I admin a Discord server of 2,600 and while I like the idea of a federated server the cost of getting most people to jump ship to the new software gives me pause. This seems to directly address a large part of my hesitation.

Comment by sparky_ 1 hour ago

Interesting, but it leaves me wondering - why ActivityPub, which IIRC is the Mastodon/Lemmy protocol, rather than, say, Matrix? Wouldn't a protocol designed for private messaging generally be preferable?

Comment by cowlevel 3 minutes ago

Matrix's decentralised rooms cause tons of problems in practice.

Comment by AustinDev 2 hours ago

Glad to see this project.

So much great info about software projects, game communities and much more that would have been on forums just a decade or so ago is now locked in discord/x/facebook/etc forever and will be lost to time. It's a form a cancer on the open internet but, what isn't now adays.

Comment by 2Gkashmiri 1 hour ago

I never understood discords use of "server" Maybe a community but why "server"?

Comment by unethical_ban 53 minutes ago

For people who were used to Ventrilo and mumble and teamspeak, the concept of "server" is well understood and Discord is essentially a voice/chat server as a service with unified identity.

Comment by SahAssar 36 minutes ago

But in those cases people actually hosted a server, right?

In discord it's more like a slack workspace, right?

The people "hosting" a discord "server" are not actually running hardware anywhere that runs the server?

Comment by cowlevel 2 minutes ago

That's correct. Discord co-opted established terminology for its own ends and it was very successful.

Comment by anonymous908213 22 minutes ago

98% of the people hosting "servers" of any kind in the world are not actually running hardware, everything is timesharing compute on a hyperscaler's computer now.

But yes, a Discord server is equivalent to a Slack workspace. It's just inherited terminology.