• Ulrich
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        1213 days ago

        Unfortunately there’s not really anything that comes close to Discord.

        Revolt is the closest, as it’s open source and self-hostable but still lacks many of the features and isn’t federated.

        • Executive Chimp
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          212 days ago

          Everyone keeps recommending Revolt but I tried it last week and it’s janky as hell and the voice chat just straight up didn’t work. This wasn’t just me, too. Our whole group tried it and gave up.

            • Cethin
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              312 days ago

              I only used it once a while ago. What doesn’t it do that Discord does that you also need?

              • Ulrich
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                Most everything. It’s also very complicated to use and slow as shit. You should try actually using it and find out for yourself.

        • Ulrich
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          813 days ago

          Discord is not really intended for “friends and families”, it’s for communities.

          • knightly the Sneptaur
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            1813 days ago

            It’s not really for communities either, it’s for locking communities into a corporate platform.

            • @[email protected]
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              thats why right wingers love FB as well and over reddit, to. that way they can delete comments control things without having the discord admins hovering over them.

            • Ulrich
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              513 days ago

              …so it’s not for communities, it’s for communities…?

        • mesa
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          413 days ago

          All it took for me is discord going down for a couple hours a couple of weeks ago. Now about half my friends went to it. All it will take is a small push or down time and they will need their fix somehow lol.

        • @[email protected]
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          1013 days ago

          Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me

          • @[email protected]
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            713 days ago

            yeah, I get it. I told people one year for my bday to download the app for me to get most of my circle on it. most did haha

        • @[email protected]
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          613 days ago

          My mother and sister is on my homeserver.

          Also my SO.

          And my every friend.

          And we use Jitsi for calls during gaming or whatnot.

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        SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. IT DO! Discord is mostly used for gaming.