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For Discord we have Revolt (almost a 1:1 clone) and obviously Matrix and XMPP.
I think Discord is still too new and still in the phase where they're baiting users on their platform with superious UX and "verything is easy". They haven't yet started shitting on their users. But who knows ^^
They are already shitting on their users, recently they disabled permanent invite links for non-comminuty servers, if you want to get permanent invite links, you need to make your server a community, which I think it will make it public (not sure). In the other hand, Discord is still a giant cesspool of malware.
Also just the blatant push for introducing more and more nitro-only feature bloat into the average users UI. I haven't ever seen the gift button being used, but it's still right there on the text bar, where it serves no purpose.
I think I've only seen it used to give a suprise cheap gift in an active chat to send people crazy
that actually sounds a little fun. I'll admit that I've mostly used discord for the smaller communities
That client looks really good! thanks for share i will give a try
I have never tried Cinny, time to give it a try
They've already made a few missteps that have driven some folks away, as well.Things like the NFT scare a while back, and the price jump on Nitro.
Discord tried doing NFTs?
They never actually got anywhere with it, but there was talk of involving them somehow.
Nice, was just looking for something! Will have to try it out. Discord on Linux barely works. And when I stream gameplay to friends, sound doesn't work out of the box, so I have to use pipewire to combine it with my mic's stream.
Take a look, it even supports bots. And yes I know I use light mode.
It's not quite clear to me how hosting works. If I want to set up whatever the analog to a "discord server" is for me and my friends, do I need to host it myself? Or can I join an existing instance and then create "servers" on there? ~~Or since it's using matrix, do I join a matrix instance and this is just a front end for matrix that works like discord?~~ misread your original post.
I feel like the support page on their site is pretty sparse at the moment.
Revolt is it's own thing, it's not Matrix. You just create an account at https://app.revolt.chat and start using it, just like Discord. With Matrix you can do the same at app.element.io, you don't need to host your own server, even though that is possible.
Ah ok thanks! I'll try it out 👍
For chat servers in Revolt it's literally the same as Discord, just click the add button
Revolt is really amazing, the only thing that it's missing (for now) it's E2EE, the team is working on implementing it as far as I know.
Revolt is not and will never be federated.
I know, you can still self host it tho, don't know how good is that option.
As far as I'm aware, their official app will not let you point to a server, it's hard coded to the main server. If they ever fix that it might be worth someone running a community server.
Yup, that's a problem
Not going to lie, I was hoping that they had fixed that by now.
How's revolt?
It's the closet thing there is to Discord while being open source. It's not federated though and it still doesn't support E2EE at the moment. If you want to give it a try, visit https://app.revolt.chat