If you're desperate for a discord-like experience (because lets face it, irc and mailing lists arent very flashy anymore!) you can try:

• rocket chat - General purpose chat platform, very similar discord
• mattermost - developer-centric platform, similar to slack
• Matrix - open protocol, has a bunch of desktop clients

~~Yes you wont have voice/vodeo chat for these but IMO that's rarely useful anyway. And if you DO need it then you can use stuff like teamspeak or zoom***~~

~~***yes i know the issues with these options but for devs you dont really ever need to use meetings for very long and sometimes using a shitty free service with all you need is better than self hosting your own. Maybe Nextcloud talk can work?~~

Some good arguments made for FOSS voice/meeting apps, and why VC and meetings are more important to the FOSS workflow than I thought :)

I think you misspelled "Please use the appropriate tool for a specific job"

The same applies to Android OS development. All of it. Android requires a very powerful 1000 USD desktop or laptop computer with 20 gigs of ram and 200 gigs of SSD hard drive space just to compile. This is unacceptable.

Meanwhile, mainline phone linux, like dreemurrs archlinux or postmarketos, can be developed using the same phone it runs on!!!!!!!! All you need is a 20 USD bluetooth keyboard. It is fully awesome. Imagine a world where anybody with just a smartphone and a bluetooth keyboard could be an OS developer!

Can we just bring bitchx back?

Discord is only good for coordinating game events and helping to facilitate gaming community engagement. I'm so sick of everyone pushing it as the central hub of everything social and the idea of entire projects centered around Discord is absolutely ludicrous.