So...this one is a bit left-of-field.
A friend of mine (Gardiner Bryant of YouTube - who reports on Linux and the Steam Deck) has started a Revolt server.
What is Revolt?
It's kinda like a FOSS alternative to Discord. You'll see the layout is almost a direct copy, and it's far less polished...but then again you haven't got the downsides of Discord's constant upselling either:
Why is this relevant?
...I can hear you ask? Well, so far its just a few developers and creators in there, but I thought of all spaces...maybe those very devs and creators whose work you use and watch...well it might be nice to join in there?
My personal friends who are in here so far are:
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imLinguin whose GitHub is here - but you may know most as a developer of Heroic Games Launcher
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Eben Bruyns whose GitHub is here - but you may know best as the dev of Junk-Store
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Gardiner himself, of course whose YouTube link is here,
What is the damn link to the damn server, woman?
I mean, you will have to make an account on Revolt, but it might be interesting to some here. You're all very welcome! <3
I have joined 6 revolt communities and every single one of them became a graveyard within a week. I would love to see this one buck the trend I’m seeing but I’m curious what your plans are and how active yall are currently.
Please understand I’m not skeptical of you and your community. I’ve just seen a lot of dead ends on revolt unfortunately.
I've seen the same.
And I can't claim any ownership of this, this is purely Gardiner's server! I just...happen to know a lot of the devs and creators in the space, and I'm slowly inviting them in because - well I guess a place like this, more focused and small where we can chat about what we love: developing for Linux, and gaming on Linux might be a nice thing!
I'd just encourage you to make a throwaway account (if you're so inclined!) and ask in the server yourself! No one can answer better than Gardiner can :)
This is literally like...idk 2 hours old at this point. No 'big' posts have been made, just me prodding the odd folk (like here) to join in and see if they like it :)
No worries hope I didnt sound too “challenging” or anything! I’ll come pop in soon then :)