FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like? (connectedplaces.online)

submitted 3 weeks ago by wisdomchicken@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

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[-] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We need a damn federated Discord! Stoat and Root are bandaids until they either shut down themselves or degrade.

Do NOT reply to me with Matrix. It'll be a federated Discord when it actually gets some uptake for more than just Fediverse instance rooms.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

As you seem to appreciate, 95% of the time matrix is exactly what's needed. People seem to hate it because it's slightly different than discord, but anything that isn't discord is going to have that problem. It also has other problems, but at least it's not as bad as fucking discord.

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

I mean Stoat and Root just do not have that problem. They look like Discord.

All that we need is that but federated.

Also Matrix lacks key Discord-like features in terms of voice chat, screen sharing etc.

[-] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Can you explain which features are missing for you?

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

No audio/screen sharing, incredibly basic community or "space" customisation tools. No roles.

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Imo all it needs is for 2.0 to come out and for discord-like clients like cinny to mature to get to a point where it's a good discord replacement, and both of those seem pretty close to happening.

[-] snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

when it actually gets some uptake for more than just Fediverse instance rooms.

Matrix has been used by FOSS projects for years

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, but it just isn't used in more casual ways. If I wanted to sit in Fediverse meta chatrooms and chatrooms for a bunch of clients and open source projects then Matrix is for me, but that's not what people want out of Discord alternatives.

[-] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I agree with this but why are we all pitching for completely new platforms. Why don’t we all just go and contribute to stoat and implement federation instead of waiting for an entirely new platform to come up. I understand many open source people like fragmentation, but I personally would wish for more concentrated dev time on a single project. Also having one centralized place for most work makes it easier to fork later and have a solid base to work off of instead of a bunch of different ideas over and over

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Stoat have not designed their platform to federate and aren't interested.

[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Why do we need federation though? I like my discord 'servers' being disjointed.

[-] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 0 points 3 weeks ago

Fluxer.app looks promising. It's still in very early dev, but according to the site:

These features are coming soon:

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Opt-in E2EE messaging

E2EE calls

Federation

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The public beta looks pretty good but it's currently very slow. There is a large refactor going on so I'm hoping for the best, but even in its current state it seems to support many of Discord's biggest features quite well.