Why does most people seem to be against having a Signal, Matrix, Telegram, etc, group?

[Nemaki Arber]

Every suggestion i see about this gets downvoted or turned down and were asking for this for a good reason, what if the forums gets taken down?

I get some of the mentionned platforms in the title might not have the ToS we need or the level of security that wed deem acceptable. It could be other socials too though not just chat platforms..

 

[leloyon]

Having any sort of official sansu chat is more of a moderation headache than it is worth. The jannies do not want to deal with having to manage an off-platform chat on top of the forum. Even if it is not run by them, if they give their blessing for it and designate it the "official sansu chat", then if anything bad happens on there, if anything even just questionable happens or gets brought up or discussed on there, anything that makes that chat look bad, guess who gets held accountable? The jannies who openly proclaimed it as the official chat of the forum and thus drove traffic to it.

Hell, even if they don't designate it as the official sansu chat, even it just being shilled openly will have misguided forum members confusing it as such, and bad actors portraying it as such.

Nothing stopping you from creating your own chats as long as you don't openly shill it.