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Just fyi, here are some other alternatives (note that I haven't tried any of them, not even matrix, but I've heard of these as open alternatives to Discord):
fluxer sounds too good to be true.
Voice, video, screen-sharing, looks and functions just like discord, open source. What's the catch?
Yeah, I wonder that too, especially because I had never heard of it until a couple days ago.
Stoat seems great but they require google play store to even run.
I also tried over the course of three days to make a stoat account and couldn't get the verification email to go through.
It's also centralized with no plans to include federation, so we'd be running from a burning ship to a smoking one
I also had issues while making an account there.
I think federation is actually undesirable in this case. Most Discord communities are very particular, and I'd be making one just for my friends and me, no need to complicate things by introducing federation.
I feel like communities being particular is exactly why it should be federated. You can have your account on your instance with you and your friends, but connect to another instance dedicated to a community of hardcore pen enthusiasts with the same account, and no one has to worry about getting money somehow to support hosting all these communities in a single place :)
Same, didn't work. Likely due to large amounts of users trying I'd guess
I didn't know that, thanks.