It's already hard enough for self-hosters and small online communities to deal with spam from fleshbags, now we're being swarmed by clankers. I have a little Mediawiki to document my deranged maladaptive daydreams worldbuilding and conlanging projects, and the only traffic besides me is likely AI crawlers.
I hate this so much. It's not enough that huge centralized platforms have the network effect on their side, they have to drown our quiet little corners of the web under a whelming flood of soulless automata.
I meant the OP more as a lament about it being hard rather than a quip about it being easy.
Though upon reflection it's not the voice chat that's a problem, it's the fact that Discord is a lot of things, a chatroom, a VOIP service, and so on, and recreating all those things on top bolting on federation (which I don't see as a desirable feature in this case) is what makes it so hard.
An iPhone. I’ve tried Android 3 separate times, a Nexus 5, 6P, and Pixel 3A XL, and I keep crawling back to pay the Apple tax.
Although the accessibility features have replaced several assistive devices that each cost several times the price of the iPhone, so it’s a matter of perspective.
Nowadays everyone accepted the name “Discord” but I think it’s a pretty poor choice of branding too.
A terrible name for an app meant to facilitate communication. Always baffled me. But the name is so widely recognized that nobody thinks twice about it.
I always thought Noosphere would make a cool name for a Discord replacement, especially if it incorporates a way to permanently catalog the knowledge accrued by the community, say as a built-in wiki. That might actually make it viable as a support platform.
The sad part is VR has excellent accessibility applications. I have a head-mounted magnifier that's just a Samsung Gear headset and cheap phone with some gubbinz stuck on the side. (Let's ignore the fact the magnifier costs $3000 when the components cost maybe $700-$K tops, but that's assistive tech for ya). If VR really went mainstream It would help reduce the cost of the AT that relies on it.
Now if only we could find a mainstream market appeal for tiny piezoelectric crystals then braille displays could stop costing an arm and a leg.
There's a reason why Apple is the poster child for accessibility. They control the entire stack from hardware to OS, and have an ocean of money to devote to what is effectively a tiny marginalized portion of their user base.
Open source is the exact opposite. Any given open source project (especially any given Linux distro) is standing atop a precarious mound of other open source projects that the distro maintainers themselves have no control over. So when accessibility breaks, the maintainers say "It's not us, it's GNOME". Then GNOME says "It's not us, it's Wayland", and so on.
Imagine I handed you a laptop without a working screen, then when you complain you can't use it, I said "It's not my problem" or "We'll get to it eventually" or "I wouldn't know how to help you" That's desktop Linux when you're blind.
Apologies if this comes across as a rant. I'm just bitter about the fact there's all this free, privacy-respecting software out there that's out of my reach, and I'm stuck selling my soul to Microsoft and Apple.
I'm happy with my Unifi network and security setup, especially the single pain of glass. I had assumed the NAS would integrate with that system, but it doesn't seem to.
I have a QNAP NAS in addition to the unas2 mentioned in the OP. Both have WD red drives. I also run Proxmox on an ancient laptop. How does virtualizing a file server work?
iPhone has better accessibility.