On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM Polarian <[email protected]> wrote:
> > However, I do not believe the death of mailing lists are due to code > of conducts. There's no doubt that mailing lists and IRC have been > increasing more rare within the open source community. > > A larger and larger portion of open source projects are using Discord, > or another proprietary, insecure, privacy invasive platform. It has > gotten to the point where there is quite a few open source projects > which are exclusively on Discord. I can use the example of Void Linux > which shutdown their mailing list and exclusively uses Github. > > Yeah, for me it's happening everywhere, not just in tech. For instance my main social group has moved to Discord while keeping our mailing list going, and there are now just 5 or 6 of us using the list out of 60 users. It reminds me of the decline of Usenet when folks started moving on to options with more features.
