Anyone got a recommendation for an open source alternative to discord? Basically just need voice, text, and screen sharing for a group of friends of like, 5-6 at most on at any time.
Even if I gotta pay to host a server, I’d rather do that than pay discord extortion money to avoid ads while still getting my data stolen.
Element/Matrix
Vote with your feet. Have to leave the platform if you want to stick it to them.
This is why I set my server up to mirror to a Revolt server (we're an rp server)
Eventually, folks will want to move, some will say, "But all our posts", and I can go, "Good news!"
Investors, who made Discord possible, want to earn money. It's totally understandable.
The users (the people generating the profit for iNvEsToRs) deserve better.
Discord is a sack of shit anyways…I don’t get the obsession?
It's decent for voice chat in games.
I'm not sure why it became the open source world's documentation platform of choice.
I get so tired of this "servers are expensive" cycle. Anyone know of a good P2P alternative? No servers, no ads, no subscriptions.
Skype was P2P for voice, video and files- only text chat and user discovery had any major server usage so users could receive chats while offline. Microsoft still sought to centralize & monetize it, they actively removed a lot of the P2P networking to "improve user experience". Any service owned by any profit seeking corporation will have the same end result regardless of the underlying tech; their excuses will just change forms.
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