That's why I specifically wrote "completely public" not "private".
I think most people know that a discord server with a few hundred or thousand members can hardly be considered private. But I can imagine that there are people who don't want to put it directly online for everybody to find on Google. Not that I like that.
How about crossposting stuff from reddit there to get the engagement up?
Lemmy communities are basically forums. So let's post and interact more here. :)
Is this the comment or just the mod message? If it's just the mod message what was the comment?
why anyone would use it as a forum
That's what I also would like to know. It's such a bad platform for it.
Let's hope so
Damn. Good that I'm not in the US
That would be really great!
Which ones? Haven't seen any others yet.
Good idea. Now we just have to convince the rest of the people ;)
Good idea!
True. But it's verifiable.
Popular FOSS projects get audited all the time. Heck, there is even automated software to detect anomalies in code changes.
Auditability is the only reason why you can only really trust open source but not closed source. With proprietary software you'll always have to trust the developers to not do something shady and are competent enough. With open source you can simply verify it.
Also being open source is what usually makes popular FOSS more stable and secure than most closed counterparts. A LOT of people donate their work and since it's completely public, most want their contributions to be in good shape. If only a few or no other people see your code, you are tempted to write bad code a lot more. This of course is not always the case but more often than not.
Also in most developed countries it's illegal to purposefully introduce manipulated code. And I don't think most people would risk punishment for that if literally anybody could find it.
Sure. But most people don't care about the details, unfortunately. In the case of messaging they just want to communicate. And if someone asks me, which platform I'd recommend I will always start with the most secure and private.