For those who want to start some new project in response to the Discord thing, I applaud your determination and good intentions, but please just be honest that you have a good decade or two of work ahead of you if you want to start from scratch. If that feels like it’s too far into the future, you might instead want to consider throwing in your efforts to existing projects, and doing whatever you can to lift up whatever weaknesses they have, having gotten to know them well for their strengths and weaknesses. This takes time - to gain a sense of the ecosystem. Whatever ugly legacy they have, please do your best to tolerate it (say, XML) if it’s working, and not creating ongoing problems.

Voltaire famously said: “Perfect is the enemy of good”. Alas, huge numbers of Open Source geeks have a very hard time learning this lesson.

Many good, existing projects need help marketing!! They need help with grassroots efforts to build more of a userbase. They need help getting into classrooms, getting into school curriculum, getting into a default install of Raspberry Pi OS, Debian, getting into the “Welcome Wizard” app shown after a fresh install.