PC Gaming

13820 readers

1092 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

Be Respectful.
No Spam or Porn.
No Advertising.
No Memes.
No Tech Support.
No questions about buying/building computers.
No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

EXiLExJD@lemmy.ca

UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca

KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com

314

If you're paying for discord nitro, consider paying for a hosted/managed matrix server instead (matrix.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

55 comments fedilink hide all child comments

To make it clear to those who are misunderstanding: that's a list of companies that host matrix for you. They do it at a good price.

If you and your friends chip, it'll be a few bucks a pop per month to have your own private server with voice chat rooms and video chat rooms.

It's all opensource and contributes to the ecosystem. Best of all, no age verification because the data is yours.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree, it's more like we want a burger, but the only options that are out there are a meat patty here, a bun over there, and one project somewhere claims to have invented cheese and ketchup but can't get them together unless the burger is made of tofu and you have to add them yourself using chopsticks.

Discord already serves burgers, they are technically poisoned, but they are whole burgers with cheese and ketchup.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

I agree to disagree, a burger is a functional food (product) and a lot of the options provided deliver a functional product for what it is designed to do.

Mumble is great for voice chat, XMPP is great for plain text, etc.

Discord is a set of products wrapped in a platform. You have chats, voice, video, screensharing, filesharing, threads, bots, etc.

But since you want the whole buffet you'll need to wait while Stoat and Spacebar finish cooking all the food, they don't have a team of chefs backed by VC money.

If you don't care for all that just keep using Discord or move to a proprietary buffet like Root until it enshittifies like Discord.