[toastal]

Is the ‘free’ part of open source not a priority? There is an AGPL license, but it looks like future contributors will be required to use proprietary services for this helping this project with Discord & Microsoft GitHub as the only communication options. If FOSS is good enough for your project, it should be good enough for the tools used to build your community…

[mihaic]

That seems overy ideological. While the software itself might be good enough (it often isn't, as that's why these products are being developed), hosting it is a work that can be better spent on the project itself.

[toastal]

For small projects, there are community & non-profit options that don’t require self-hosting. Alternatively, if your tooling is actually decentralized, then you don’t need to become a massive host & a bedroom PC can ‘host’ a project.