yes, but the comment was meant to illustrate that people don’t often do even minor extra steps like choosing an instance
it’s common knowledge in the software industry that adding questions to registration forms beyond username and password has a dramatic impact on sign-up - tiny things too that you wouldn’t think is a problem people drop off and just don’t do it
the same is true for “just use jitsi” and that’s a huge barrier: the community admin first has to know it exists, then has to make decisions about using it (or which other option? there are a few - better decide and that’s work)… how will your community handle real time messaging? more things to work out, more options to think about… and even when the admin has made all those decisions, now the community has to know that they exist (likely a bunch of reading, or perhaps more likely - they just don’t read and don’t know and the service isn’t widely used, and then that leads to fragmentation of your community)
discord is a single solution to a lot of problems. FOSS just straight up is not there, and lemmy is a VERY poor substitute - it’s a completely different communication format, with almost none of the core functions that discord provides. different core functions sure, but they aren’t really comparable
the FOSS community often downplays the energy required to make choices - often having no choice, to end users, is better than having to make a choice - even if the end result is worse
people choose bluesky over mastodon because it was too hard for them to choose an instance… this is not a solution
Jitsi has a central instance
yes, but the comment was meant to illustrate that people don’t often do even minor extra steps like choosing an instance
it’s common knowledge in the software industry that adding questions to registration forms beyond username and password has a dramatic impact on sign-up - tiny things too that you wouldn’t think is a problem people drop off and just don’t do it
the same is true for “just use jitsi” and that’s a huge barrier: the community admin first has to know it exists, then has to make decisions about using it (or which other option? there are a few - better decide and that’s work)… how will your community handle real time messaging? more things to work out, more options to think about… and even when the admin has made all those decisions, now the community has to know that they exist (likely a bunch of reading, or perhaps more likely - they just don’t read and don’t know and the service isn’t widely used, and then that leads to fragmentation of your community)
discord is a single solution to a lot of problems. FOSS just straight up is not there, and lemmy is a VERY poor substitute - it’s a completely different communication format, with almost none of the core functions that discord provides. different core functions sure, but they aren’t really comparable
the FOSS community often downplays the energy required to make choices - often having no choice, to end users, is better than having to make a choice - even if the end result is worse