I asked an AI (please forgive me, but it did actually save me a lot of time researching), what the largest #Discord communities are, for #OpenSource projects.
I generally dislike AI, but dislike Discord even worse, BTW.
I figured it might be realistic to appeal to these communities' sense of OpenSource values (taking advantage of recent controversy, and shift in sentiment against Discord), to migrate to, say, a #Flarum forum (or #XMPP, etc) instead:
Top 20 Open Source Projects on Discord (by Members)
| Rank | Project | Members | Description |
|------|---------|---------|-------------|
| 1 | #RPCS3 | 481,000 | Open source PlayStation 3 emulator |
| 2 | #OBS Community | 244,000 | Open source streaming/recording software |
| 3 | #Reactiflux | 222,000 | #React, Redux, GraphQL community |
| 4 | #HomeAssistant | 126,000 | Open source home automation platform |
| 5 | #Vue Land (Vue.js) | 122,000 | Vue.js frontend framework community |
| 6 | #osu! | 106,000 | Open source rhythm game |
| 7 | #Electron | 81,000 | Open source desktop app framework |
| 8 | #Godot Engine | 64,000 | Open source game engine |
| 9 | #Rust Community | 66,000 | Rust programming language |
| 10 | #NestJS | 52,000 | Node.js framework |
| 11 | #TypeScript Community | 51,000 | TypeScript language |
| 12 | #Laravel | 39,000 | PHP framework |
| 13 | #Tailwind CSS | 37,000 | CSS framework |
| 14 | #Flutter | 61,000 | Google's UI toolkit |
| 15 | #Deno | 17,000 | JavaScript runtime |
| 16 | #Manim | 17,000 | Mathematical animation engine |
| 17 | #JetBrains | 40,000 | IntelliJ platform community |
| 18 | #Sentry | 35,000 | Error monitoring platform |
| 19 | #Quasar | 28,000 | Vue.js framework |
| 20 | #LibreNMS | 20,000 | Network monitoring system |
Key observations:
- RPCS3 (PS3 #emulator) is the largest with nearly half a million members
- OBS Studio is the largest productivity/tool open source project
- Game emulators and game engines have massive communities
- #JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React, Vue, NestJS) have very active communities
- Home automation (Home Assistant) has a huge community due to DIY enthusiast adoption
Note: These numbers fluctuate constantly as members join and leave. Data gathered from Discord server listings in early 2025.
