That’s most likely due to low rankings. Lemmy doesn’t prevent it.

My guess: The kids who used Discord for gaming grew up, and just went with the familiar thing when starting new communities and projects.

Also, Discord did heavy marketing early on, until it carved out a network effect. So here we are.

• Terrible format for archiving knowledge
• Terrible tool for retrieving knowledge
• Locks community access behind a corporate license agreement
• Hands control of community-created content to a corporation
• Prevents indexing by web search engines
• Antithetical to interoperability
• Privacy-hostile

A web forum is far better in most cases. If you can’t manage to run your own, there are plenty of lemmy servers that will do it for you. Even an email list (with searchable archives) would be better than Discord.

If you have collaborative documents that outgrow the forum format, use a wiki.

If real-time chat is needed, irc or matrix.

A project hosting its community on Discord is a project that won’t get my contributions.

disallow list of known bad email providers.

Imagine giving someone your phone number, and having them say you have to get a different one because they don’t like some of the digits in it.

I have seen this nonsense more times than I care to remember. Please don’t build systems this way.

If you’re trying to do bot detection or the like, use a different approach. Blacklisting email addresses based on domain or any other pattern does a poor job of it and creates an awful user experience.

(And if it prevents people from using spam-fighting tools like forwarding services, then it’s directly user-hostile, and makes the world a worse place.)

By the way, please don’t write regex to try to validate email addresses. Seriously.

Amen.

There are libraries for that; some of them are even good.

Spoiler alert: Few of them are good, and those few are so simple that you might as well not use a library.

The only way to correctly validate an email address is to send a message to it, and verify that it arrived.

Well, yes, that’s why I asked. Some newcomers to linux find Plasma more familiar than GNOME et al. Having it preinstalled can help them get comfortable faster, with less effort.

Do Pop!_OS AND Linux Mint have KDE Plasma variants, for newcomers who don’t know how to swap desktop environments?

“Systems that break email already exist, so let’s add more to the world.”

Please, no.

My (least) favorite in this category is email addresses. It’s astonishing how many developers screw this up by trying to validate an email address by some means other than sending a message to it.

Open source inherently means you can compile the code locally,

Open Source means more than that. It is defined here:

https://opensource.org/osd/

If you use the phrase “open source” for things that don’t meet those criteria, then without some clarifying context, you are misleading people.

for free.

Free Software is not the same as “software for free”. It, too, has a specific meaning, defined here:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

When the person to whom you replied wrote “free software”, they were not using it in some casual sense to mean free-of-charge.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407

Date	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:42:06 -0700
From	Jonathan Corbet <>
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:54:17 +0200 (EET)
Tero Roponen  wrote:

> From: Maisa Roponen 
> 
> "That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others
> have those things [=] below them and it does not."
> 
> This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can
> be happy again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maisa Roponen 
> [The author being 4 years old needed some assistance]
> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen 
> ---
> When I was reading the documentation, my 4-year-old
> niece wanted to see what I was doing. After telling her,
> she noticed that something was very wrong and asked
> me to fix it. Instead, I helped her fix it herself.

Please inform your niece that the patch has been applied and that the
lonely "s" need pine away no longer.

Thanks,

jon