Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I’m on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can’t find a clear “winner”.

  • @Kuvwert@lemm.ee
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    1172 months ago

    Ah this is so exciting!

    Discord ‘existing’ has held back development motivation on Foss Federated Communication alternatives.

    When they go public only good things will happen for projects like matrix :)

    I’m very excited!

    • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      142 months ago

      I feel like matrix isn’t a one-to-one replacement. It’s a good slack replacement.

      I haven’t used matrix enough to know for sure but does it have the discord equivalent of servers?

      • @WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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        172 months ago

        those are called spaces there. but there’s no flexible roles system. also no hop-on voice channels yet, but that’s a client feature so maybe that’s a bit different

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      2 months ago

      Matrix is cool but it really suffers from complexity.

      The spec is a mess because they keep expanding it.

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        2 months ago

        Let’s not mention the abysmal performance for servers. Making it largely infeasible to scale.

        It’s not the solution, not even remotely close, unfortunately.

        • @Kuvwert@lemm.ee
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          12 months ago

          What are you using instead? I only recently set up my synapse server and I’d be interested to head what the alternatives are

          • @zedage@lemm.ee
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            12 months ago

            I’ve found SimpleX a much better solution than matrix for a discord alternative.

          • Shimitar
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            11 month ago

            Conduwuit is actively developed and works pretty nice for me. Single user, but bridged to hundreds of telegram, WhatsApp and discord rooms. As well as a few matrix rooms too.