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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€“] Dojan@pawb.social 7 points 16 hours ago (2 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€“] gegil@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

For me personally, if a software project or game server has its own web forum, its preferred way to communicate and talk about this project or server specifically. I would rather register 100 accounts on one hundred forums, than create one account on discord, and be able join 100 communites. I am talking about large communities, and not personal or group chatting, for which i can use matrix or signal.

And what i meant by "no good alternatives", is that there are no alternatives which are both, good as in quality, and actually popular way to host a community and not some niche project.

[โ€“] Klear@quokk.au 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 7 hours ago

Again, be the difference. I harass companies over mail because I donโ€™t want to fucking use Discord to get project or order status updates.

โ€œThanks for the update. You know, itโ€™d be really prudent to post this kind of thing on your website, or even send out updates via newsletter.โ€