I really hope indie developers will start moving off Discord. I always really disliked their UI, but it’s becoming clear that Discord is not viable in the long-term.
Enshitification ensues.
If you’re looking for an alternative: https://revolt.chat/
Or Matrix. Lots of clients, all kind of meh, but it’s federated, and has e2ee.
Is just setting up a matrix.org account fine or should I like find anotherone/Selfhost?
I’m personally on matrix.org, but it’s like with Lemmy. It’s federated so you can do as you please. I think self-hosting requires a decent amount of resources, but I haven’t looked into it all that deeply.
You can self host on a PC or VM with as little as 1GB RAM and 1 CPU core (although you’ll want closer to 4GB RAM and 2 cores if you join really large public rooms, since it takes more resources to talk to hundreds/thousands of other instances). Fairly easy to stand up too, if you use something like this ansible script.
That’s not so bad! Thanks for the info.
desperately needs screen sharing. it’s basically the only reason me and my friends use discord still.
Not only that but noise cancelation Discord use sounds better according to my friends.
Sadly, it does. I hate fucking discord since I’ve started using it, the quirky facade and everything. We use it as webrtc and I would gladly drop it for anything less clown shoes, but the noise cancelation just works.
Came here to ask for an alternative, so thanks. I didn’t have Revolt in my open source/federated alternatives list. But I’ve added it now.
Lol, they want to go public in this disastrous economy.
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Any advice on how to move a server over to a matrix/element based setup?
I have a feeling there will be resistance to change, because many of the core people there seem to be discord fans and are longtime users.
I have a feeling there will be resistance to change, because many of the core people there seem to be discord fans and are longtime users.
I only use it (discord) if I really have to now, been encouraging my friends/peers to contact me on matrix if anything, which hopefully pushes the user base.
Quests are a feature of Discord, so they’re not ads. But for everyone not using quests, this is just another annoying piece of crap.
Quests are a feature of Discord, so they’re not ads
Being a “feature” doesn’t mean it isn’t an ad.
