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Discord Alternatives, Ranked
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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Doesn't enen mention XMPP or Mumble, thus probably badly researched.
Yeah they don't seem to care about calling at all, with giving discourse such a high score.
Which is what made Discord so popular, over TeamSpeak. It made proper voice calling dead simple.
The article is entirely pointless, there’s plenty of forum and chat software, what set discord apart was voice. And anyone ranking Matrix that high has no clue what they’re talking about.
In particular, resource friendly video sharing. It's crazy how much worse the alternatives are in terms of resolution, frame rate, and RAM usage.
What's funnier, (yes, I see him🧵), is the fact taggart worked as a fed.
Birds of a feather…
Just looked at XMPP, looks like a protocol, not a client. Is there a specific implementation you reccomend?
You can learn more about it on https://joinjabber.org/ (Jabber being the name of the open federation, similar to ActivityPub and the Fediverse).