Harmony: Chat like Discord. Federated like email(mony.lol)
11 pointsby FinalDestiny5 hours ago4 comments
  • Slow_Hand3 hours 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.

  • sparky_3 hours 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?
    • cowlevelan hour ago
      Matrix's decentralised rooms cause tons of problems in practice.
      • enemy77734 minutes ago
        Could you name 1gram of the problems?
  • AustinDev3 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.

  • 2Gkashmiri3 hours ago
    I never understood discords use of "server" Maybe a community but why "server"?
    • unethical_ban2 hours 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.
      • SahAssar2 hours 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?

        • voxic1136 minutes ago
          For what it's worth I never actually hosted a ventrilo server either, I always just paid a service to do it. Pretty much the same experience as discord is today.
        • anonymous9082132 hours 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.

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