Seriously?! Will this trend ever dies?!
I don’t want to use discord, can’t they just make a simple request form? Whenever I see “join our discord” for anything in any service I just never use that service, keep it as an option for whoever wants to hangout there just don’t make it the “only” channel of communication!
> Because the PDS distribution is not totally settled, we want to have a line of communication with PDS admins in the network, so we’re asking any developer that plans to run a PDS to join the PDS Admins Discord.
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation
This is much more reasonable than an actual gate on the feature.
The goal is just to help PDS operators join the network and make sure that if there's a problem we have a channel of communication open.
P.S. Fantastic project (Matrix/Element)!