Comment by apitman

25 days ago

These don't offer the core UX of Discord, which is being able to jump between many communities from a single app/login.

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immibis  24 days ago

No open thing can ever do that. By virtue of openness, there are many copies of open things whereas your requirement requires there to be just one.

  • apitman  24 days ago

    I think you could get pretty close with OAuth2. You could also have the frontend be a centralized app, but allow people to host their own servers. If the entity controlling the frontend goes off the rails you still have a pretty simple exit strategy.

    • immibis  23 days ago

      OAuth2 is a failed protocol - it's more of a set of guidelines for vendors to implement proprietary authentication systems, all incompatible with each other.

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arunc  23 days ago

Zulip does. It's as easy as discord, if not better!

  • apitman  22 days ago

    I looked into Zulip a couple years ago and they didn't support this. Have they implemented OAuth2 or something since then? Specifically being able to log in once and be able to jump between any number of self hosted servers.