The venn diagram of the so-called nerd community and OSS participation barely overlaps.
I’ve never been to a Comic-Con, I don’t play games, I don’t watch “Linus Tech Tips” — or YouTube at all — and I’ve been deeply involved in OSS for three decades.
I mean, that's entirely your opinion and potentially only representative of the sector of OSS you've touched. I've known scores of programmers who do open source work who also cross over with that stuff... and to your earlier point, I'm in several Discords that are not "nerd"-centric (politics, etc).
Multiple people here are pointing out reality to you but you're seemingly insistent that your view is the only valid one. shrug
The point is that Discord participation is not universal, and the site has a deserved reputation as being unprofessional and often more than a little seedy.
This conversation reminds me of the when people built Facebook-only communities because “everyone is on Facebook”.
> The point is that Discord participation is not universal, and the site has a deserved reputation as being unprofessional and often more than a little seedy.
Look, you can make that point all you want but it's not particularly relevant here. All we're clearing up is your idea that Discord is "for nerds" only, which it's not.
> This conversation reminds me of the when people built Facebook-only communities because “everyone is on Facebook”.
Note that I am not saying that people should de-facto build on Discord, and I'd appreciate it if you could read my earlier comments where I noted my opinion of Discord rather than trying to puts words in my mouth.
