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.

On the bright side:

Aggressive garbage collection and automatic thread locking are optional settings in most web forum software I’ve seen.

Lemmy shares some of the important parts of Usenet, and could develop into something that comes close.

• 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.

Does it have feature parity with Element yet?

Not yet. It’s in beta.

https://element.io/labs/element-x

EDIT: Nheko is NOT a mobile client.

If you specifically meant mobile, you could have said so. Your statement was, “every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.” Nheko disproves that statement. It also suggests that some alternative mobile clients might handle E2EE at least as well as it does. You might want to try them.

By the way, text search with end-to-end encryption happens to be tricky to implement, and Matrix projects aren’t funded by corporations with deep pockets. Tempering your expectations regarding development speed is probably worthwhile here.

Correcting some misconceptions…

Element for Android doesn’t support searching in encrypted channels

That’s true of regular Element for Android, but it’s being replaced with Element X (which is built with Rust). I would expect search to be added there if it isn’t already.

and I think you can’t use E2EE in the browser at all(?)

I have done it in Firefox, so that’s false. Perhaps you had trouble with a specific browser?

plus basically every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.

Nheko handles E2EE just fine, so that would seem to be false as well.

Since you’re looking for recommendations, it would help if you said which clients you tried and what problems you had with them.

In case you haven’t seen it, you can set a Features: E2EE filter on this list:
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

Do services count? Because in that case, ride-hailing. A replacement for services like Uber and Lyft.

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.

I was confused because there was no article visible at that link. Then I noticed you included the #fragment part that skips the article and jumps straight to the comments, and scrolled up to find it. Here’s the corrected link: https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/16/where-bugfixes-and-new-features-come-from/

No, they are not always safe.

Be picky about what you install, and vigilant about permissions.

Yes, there are many SSD SLC with afforable price right now too, for example ADATA SU650 I used.

No, that is a TLC drive. It only uses SLC for the cache.

It also works over ssh. :)

Solidigm P44 Pro is a good choice. This model is based on the Hynix Platinum P41, which is well regarded. They provide a bootable linux ISO image for updating firmware, so you can boot that directly, or potentially extract the files and run the updater on your distro of choice. (It’s probably best not to do it on an installation running from the SSD, of course.)

I don’t see any firmware bug workarounds for these models in the linux kernel sources, which is a good sign.

Solidigm is the company resulting from SK Hynix recently buying Intel’s NAND business. They apparently contribute to LVFS, which is another good sign, even if the current model’s firmware isn’t on there yet.

You’ve been lucky, then. Some popular SSDs have had firmware that actively corrupted data or burned through the flash cells incredibly fast.

Here’s a list of vendors that contribute to fwupd:

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/vendors/

A manufacturer’s presence on that list doesn’t mean all its drives are covered, but it might be a good starting place when searching.

choose SSD with SLC

Drives made with SLC flash memory are practically nonexistent. Affordable ones completely so. Times have changed.

Here’s a list of models: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27_j9NDPU3cNlj2HKcrfpJKHkOf-Oi1DbuuQva2gT4

OP has multiple fediverse accounts and posted the same thing to communities on all of them. Either they’re deliberately spamming, or they don’t really understand how this stuff works yet.

Inaction is not consent.

the default state of the checkbox is on.

That’s a very strange thing to mistake for consent.

The problem with opt-in telemetry is that it messes with the scope of the research.

Too bad. That does not make it okay to collect data without consent.

Not ever.

In other words, unbiased telemetry is not possible to do ethically. (Or to say it differently, ethical telemetry necessarily has bias.)