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Discord Alternatives? (fedia.io)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm part of the exodus from reddit, and have made the active decision to start de-cloudifying my life. I've got my own media server, and working on a Nextcloud for the home.

One of the biggest pieces of software that I currently use though, which has way too much access to my hardware is Discord. I know of old school software like Teamspeak and Mumble, but those aren't quite what I'm looking for. They lack some of the features that discord has, such as the chat rooms, or online indicators for friends.

Does anyone know of any good alternatives?

EDIT: Thanks for the suggestions! It's looking like Matrix is going to be the way to go

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Matrix? It's also quite close and federated as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's Revolt that seems to be very similar to Discord. They even have instructions to self host on their github repo. Don't know if this matters, but as of right now it is not federated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Possibly Rocketchat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Matrix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been checking out open-source alternative Revolt, which is very similar to Discord but currently very bare bones, biggest feature missing is screen share.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd try matrix apps like element or wait for spacebar (formerly fosscord), no much alternatives available unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

matrix seems to work fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

kinda, but it lacks some features that makes discord better fit for a some cases.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In case you guys are wondering, despite being posted to [email protected], this post actually only exists and can be interacted with on fedia.io

Federation seems to be falling over all over the threadiverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It looks like lemmy.ml is down, that might be why we're only interacting with it locally

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i'm interacting with it and i'm on sopuli.xyz! :P

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