I had a random (probably dumb) idea: Given the whole Discord Drama going on, what if there was a Discord alternative, but in the style of Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Teknevra@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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Ie similar to how Lemmy allows users to create instances that are federated with each other, only this Discord alternative's instances wouldn't federate with each other.

Instead, each instance would be a complete silo, although instance owners would be given the option to potentially federate their instance outwards (ie to other federated platforms), if they wish.

Perhaps it could potentially be forked from the already existing Lemmy?

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/discord-alternative-search-10000-percent-stoat

https://www.zdnet.com/article/discord-age-verification-requirement/

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[-] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

IRC
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[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago

Man, everything has to be instant these days. What about readopting the leisurely pace of bulletin boards?

[-] aion@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Like Matrix?

[-] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

Does matrix have decent voice chat these days?

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 11 points 2 days ago

It doesn't have decent anything yet but it'll get there eventually. The voice chat is actually one of it's stronger points IMO.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

No, this sounds nothing like Matrix...

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

Matrix?

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Check out matrix there's the synapse reference server but as someone who's run that for a while, I wanna run some of the rust ports for it like conduwuit or tunnwul. They seem more performant over synapse. Welcome to federation, it's a clusterfuck and it's awesome!

[-] greenbelt@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

real time communication is over-rated. Just use "async" communication on lemmy.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

What are the critical features of Discord?

group chat with history and some degree of searchability
forums (but with more realtime features so it works a bit closer to a chat)
voice calling, including groups
video calling
screen sharing
mobile app with much the same features as desktop
web app, ditto.
“ownership” of specific spaces (“servers” in discord context)
solid permission setup for visibility (like “roles” in discord)
trivial startup effort

Other less-critical but still potentially important features:

markdown-like formatting in posts/messages
grouping of channels
intermix of “forum” spaces with “groupchat” and “voice/video” spaces

I don’t know of any that cover all of those, and ymmv on how critical some of these are.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Movim (an XMPP client) covers most of that. I think it's currently working on having a collection of rooms be in one channel, but it already has group chats, group video calls, screen sharing, and permissions in groups.

It doesn't have forums in it, but it does allow users to have blogs.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

XMPP and Deltachat are federated (though not with each other). A person can self-host an XMPP or Deltachat server that can communicate with any other XMPP or Deltachat instance.