Thanks for the links to the groups however I find it odd that the chosen choices are spyware proprietary applications except matrix. Usually in metaphor when a shop opens that sells a product people come to the shop to check it out, get support, & discuss around it not the shop comes to your neighborhoods. Also the choice to bridge platforms together with bots means no matter what platform your on you are bound to each one's privacy policy because your chat is shared across all platforms.
Most people seeking these alternatives are trying to move away from spyware technologies so to me it seems like an contradiction to be on telegram & discord. Like if you really want an instant messenger it would be better in my opinion to use a shoutbox in this forum or create a group on simplex.chat which currently seems to be the most private open source instant messenger in comparison to others. Matrix could be somewhat okay if you're hosting your own homeserver but I know synapse has some issues & there are flaws with element/matrix that some may say it's not secure enough because of the metadata leaks which may cause some people to be deturred to even the matrix.
In my opinion this controversy should be corrected by shutting down these groups & only relying on the forums as a one stop place for information, support, & discussions. With browsers people can use the page as a pwa if they really want to have a feel of an app experience. I've seen many projects do this try to branch out to multiple platforms & in my opinion it creates more issues as i've seen in some projects such as for example podman.
They have an irc, an element/matrix, the redhat linux forums & they all are dead. The excuse is different maintainers not actual dev team run these & only know as much as they've learned when most of your help is in total reliance of the community itself. Most people who practice podman including these maintainers only use CLI & yet redhat has created podman cli & podman desktop. If you try to get help for Podman desktop in any of the groups irc, element, or the rh forums your sol the forums nobody looks at, matrix the rooms literally dead just users for number count & the owner of the room has no clue about podman desktop & only focuses on the podman cli group he maintains on matrix while holding both room names. The irc for either cli or gui dead the same maintainer runs the irc as the matrix rooms & he pays more attention to the cli matrix room then irc period.
This is just a small example of branching out to multiple platforms & how it can cause problems requiring you to scour multiple places for info, register to multiple tos & be subjected to all their pp just because your trying to get help with the product. Then the deadness because everyones spread out you don't need to be like a spider building a web making every connecting point another platform. In my opinion all this does is irritate people having to jump through these hoops just to try to get some help it wouldn't be even worth it & 7/10 would probably look for the next thing because when they need help maybe they will get it there.
That's why I love forums they are the foundation of community building, all infomation in one place contexted appropriately by categories, forums, & sub-forums. I also think it's a good choice that flarum was chosen to use for this forum instead of discourse because of the javascript & funky theme discourse has going on some browsers just be not working & flarum works with every browser as far as i've seen. I will always prefer a forum over instant messaging platforms & forums is where I will stay & seek information, help, & community.
That's my feedback on the subject thank your for taking the time to read c ya around the forums.