With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.
With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.
We need a damn federated Discord! Stoat and Root are bandaids until they either shut down themselves or degrade.
Do NOT reply to me with Matrix. It’ll be a federated Discord when it actually gets some uptake for more than just Fediverse instance rooms.
I agree with this but why are we all pitching for completely new platforms. Why don’t we all just go and contribute to stoat and implement federation instead of waiting for an entirely new platform to come up. I understand many open source people like fragmentation, but I personally would wish for more concentrated dev time on a single project. Also having one centralized place for most work makes it easier to fork later and have a solid base to work off of instead of a bunch of different ideas over and over
Stoat have not designed their platform to federate and aren’t interested.
Why do we need federation though? I like my discord ‘servers’ being disjointed.
As you seem to appreciate, 95% of the time matrix is exactly what’s needed. People seem to hate it because it’s slightly different than discord, but anything that isn’t discord is going to have that problem. It also has other problems, but at least it’s not as bad as fucking discord.
I mean Stoat and Root just do not have that problem. They look like Discord.
All that we need is that but federated.
Also Matrix lacks key Discord-like features in terms of voice chat, screen sharing etc.
Can you explain which features are missing for you?
Imo all it needs is for 2.0 to come out and for discord-like clients like cinny to mature to get to a point where it’s a good discord replacement, and both of those seem pretty close to happening.
Fluxer.app looks promising. It’s still in very early dev, but according to the site:
The public beta looks pretty good but it’s currently very slow. There is a large refactor going on so I’m hoping for the best, but even in its current state it seems to support many of Discord’s biggest features quite well.
That feature list looks too good to be true ha ha
I can dream lol
I am now waiting manual review
Really? That’s new, I signed up this morning and it just worked. They must be being hammered by people leaving Discord too
Well yes, it says: “To manage the influx of users during our public beta, we are throttling registrations…”
There’s Shoot.
Any active Shoot instances?
Don’t think so. I mean there is the web client which does give a default instance, but it requires an invite code.
Yeah, if that can develop further and some people start to take it up - it could become more of a thing.