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Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by ProfessorBashington@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I'm on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can't find a clear "winner".

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[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not entirely related, but why do so many people use Discord? What's the appeal? I only ever used it as a replacement vor teamspeak or ventrilo. And I honestly hate most online games.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've been using it for several years. I have a small server I use with my IRL friends and it works great.

Near 100% availabily
Nice sound quality
Supports multiple servers for your multiple interests
UI is amazing
Works fine on every platform
Screen sharing / streaming is easy
Cool to see what your friends are playing
Free plan is more than enough, you can pay for cosmetics or higher stream quality.

[–] patrlim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The UI is actually kinda ass, but we all got used to it.

Me and my friends moved to matrix, but we still use discord for streaming.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Compared to the software we were using before such as Skype, TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and Mumble.... The UI is amazing.

I'd happily move to Matrix but I'd lose all the servers for my hobby interests. No point in having both.

[–] kr0n@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago

+1. It's like an IRC channel but improved and easy to use.

When I started in the online games, we used IRC + TeamSpeak. Now we only use Discord since it has all of them in only one app but it's better (except the ads), easier and you also has a Mobile App.