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RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) (i.ytimg.com)
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[-] ___@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Genuine question: as someone who has never used Discord's Nitro, what basic functionality am I missing out on?

[-] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

There were 2.5 major ones for me:

  1. Higher upload limit for game clips/highlights. OBS didn't handle transcoding the stream down to a lower resolution without hitting the GPU hard enough to make the game stuttery
  2. Higher stream resolution/fps. This mattered less to me as the homies aged and played games less frequently
  3. Use the obnoxious custom emoji reactions between servers. I could upload some real egregious shit on a test server and use it in the homie server
[-] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

This is one of the reasons these "let's replace Discord" threads are so tricky. I use Discord basically every day, and heavily twice a week for games nights with two different groups, for 6 years. I'm in there. And I have never uploaded a clip or streamed anything, so I never considered that this might be something people want, or are using the platform for. And I've seen a few custom emoji around, but never considered using some dude's emoji in a different group's chat.

So it's wild how different people are using it, and getting one replacement to do all of it is a big ask!

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

lots of customization options for both the interface and your profile, but more important to most people is being able to use emojis/stickers from your subscribed servers everywhere on the platform. This might seem petty, but there's no other software that I regularly use that requires me to pay in order to for example, change the theme of the interface.

edit: that does not include the stuff that I knew I was paying for and was on purpose paying for, like better stream quality and larger upload size and extra shit for my server.

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