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"The company is going to have to find ways to monetise more aggressively" Would Discord going public be good or bad for its users? We spoke to an expert to find out (www.eurogamer.net)
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[โ€“] gegil@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Discprd sucks, but there is no good alternative.

[โ€“] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Matrix (basically federated Discord), which is already used by a lot of open source projects, but due to the Network Effect, is not as popular as Discord. It is possible to bridge Discord and Matrix, but the server admin has to implement that, and isn't the cleanest solution.

Basically all non-corporate social media platforms suffer from the same problem, that being the chicken and the egg.

[โ€“] Dojan@pawb.social 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This just pointedly isn't true. There are good alternatives, there's just not a single drop-in replacement for the role that Discord fills.

For the most obvious drop-in replacement, you have Stoat, previously called Revolt. It's basically Discord but self-hosted. For text and voice chat you have things like Matrix or Signal, both having the added bonus of being end-to-end encrypted so your shit is private. There's also the old-school options like Mumble and IRC.

For forums there's Discourse, or if you want to go traditional phpbb is still around.

The big problem is that not all your friends are gathered on a single platform. This was always the case before Discord, and will be the case again after Discord. Be the change. Encourage people to switch away, and move your communities. Prune those that you don't need any more.

[โ€“] Klear@quokk.au 4 points 9 hours ago

There is no alternative because the software is irrelevant. The communities are what's good about it, and the alternatives don't have that.

Sure, if you want to start a chatroom wuth sone friends, you can do a lot better than discord, but if you want what used to be discussion boards on specific topics, you're sruck with discord as that's where everyone went.