• QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
    114·
    13 hours ago

    So seriously, what’s going to replace Discord? Everyone wants to leave, but to where?

    And no, Matrix is not and will never be a viable alternative

      • sadie_sorceress@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 hours ago

        My group left about 5 years ago (give or take a couple) when there was a hostile takeover of freenode. I haven’t really looked into it at all since then, is freenode back or where did everyone move to?

        • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          8 minutes ago

          Everyone moved to libera. It literally happened right as the freenode fiasco happened, so I am surprised you and your group didn’t hear about it.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      111·
      11 hours ago

      Matrix is not

      With LiveKit for calls / screen share, it is for my group. Though I’m not saying it doesn’t have issues.

      will never be

      Community-developed homeservers like continuwuity have gotten a lot of new support on the last few weeks. Clients like cinny are getting pretty close to a replacement ux wise (if you look at PR2599 on Cinny’s GitHub, they are working on and will soon merge support for LiveKit in a way that is very close to voice channels).

      I also generally think that the only way to replace Discord as an ecosystem where you talk to many people from different communities is a federated protocol, not a bunch of new silos, one for each community.

    • kurcatovium@piefed.socialEnglish
      16·
      12 hours ago

      I’ve seen mentioned these:

      • Stoat - pretty much same UI, based in UK, not sure where they get $$
      • Fluxer - looks virtually like 1:1 Discord clone, based in Sweden, has paid tier pretty much like Nitro on Discord on official server
      • Nerimity - a little different UI, but still very Discord-y, based in UK, sourced from donations
      • Movim - this one is interesting, but it’s not really Discord style app; it looks more like cross breed between IM and social network (FB/X), origin in France
      • Strafe - looks like Discord, supposedly have e2ee
      • Spacebar - reverse engineered Discord, IDK about maturity of this one
      • Adapt - another wanna be
      • stom@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        19 minutes ago

        Stoat still doesn’t have screenshare. It’s also a bloody stupid name - I have no idea who thought that re-brand was a good idea.

        Fluxer seems to support it though.

        BNoth can be self-hosted, which is a nice bonus.

      • moopet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        Why is “one-to-one clone of Discord” the goal for everyone? Why not set your sights on a making a good UX instead?

        • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
          5·
          6 hours ago

          I don’t think it’s necessarily the goal — Discord is just a helpful yardstick to compare things to as a baseline (and some people are looking for something that replaces Discord as closely as possible). Having to switch services is a pain, and whilst it’s not optimal in the long term to just try to replace a thing with a clone, I can see why people don’t have the executive function energy to think too hard about this.

  • warm@kbin.earth
    42·
    24 hours ago

    TeamSpeak had their chance, but they decided to be complacent after getting popular. Now they are playing catchup and very slowly. Discord has given them multiple chances now to take back market share, but TeamSpeak was never ready. This time some other project will take over instead.

  • 64bithero@lemmy.world
    51·
    1 day ago

    I still prefer to open my window and just scream for the person I’m trying to reach. Fuhgedaboutet

    • DillDough@lemmy.zip
      2·
      56 minutes ago

      Mumble is alive and well amongst Project Reality players. Same with Teamspeak for the Arma community as well as some roleplaying communities like on RedM.

  • vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    33·
    1 day ago

    They got trounced by Ventrilo, which had the saddest looking UI I’ve ever seen on a commercial product.

    • JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works
      281·
      1 day ago

      There was something kind of special about how simple Vent was. It didn’t need a bunch of bells and whistles, it did one thing and it was relatively easy for people to use. Discord feels so cluttered and it’s full of shit I don’t want.

  • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    23 hours ago

    Mobile app is dogshit but the Teamspeak 6 desktop client is decent.

    Ultimately my group is using Steam for now and checking out Fluxer self-hosting once the refactor gets done.

    • DillDough@lemmy.zip
      1·
      50 minutes ago

      They nailed what they did there really wasn’t that much more work to do. A program that can do everything and hosts everybody will always end up speed running enshitification to new lows, why does everybody just want an endless treadmill of dog shit monopolies? Best case scenario is we have many options with people scattered around them and you go to where the group that you want to engage with is.