This article would have convinced me a few years ago, but I’ve tried choosing the “right” technologies and tools unsuccessfully for too long to fall for it now. You can be idealistic or you can be successful, but it’s very difficult to be both. I know I’ve lost a lot of community building potential trying to get people to come over to the correct, open-source, democratized technology, instead of the proprietary tool/platform they’re used to. But at the end of the day, an active discord server is a lot better than a dead forum.