FLOSS communities right now

https://programming.dev/post/9777035

FLOSS communities right now - programming.dev

4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity! pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn? pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo) pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

Since we are on the topic of disliking Discord, what Matrix clients do you humans use? I tried both Element and Nheko (the latter of which isn’t electron based), and they both felt slow, clunky and unresponsive.
I gave up on matrix, was too complicated of a setup and the site was throughly unhelpful for newcomers. I eventually got it but, the permission system was somehow worse then IRC and due to the federation aspect of it you can’t modify the standard at all because then the other clients/servers can’t recieve you.
Are you using anything else besides IRC?