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The problem with decentralised alternatives to Discord isn't just the set up time.
Me and some of my friend group are pretty technical and we're willing to jump through all the hoops and difficulties to make our own little cluster of federated self-hosted servers.
The problems start occurring when we actually look at what these open source alternatives are actually capable of. And... Uh... It looks bad. Voice chatting and streaming and text channels on the same client are an absolute must.
Just use fluxer. It literally does all that. It's basically feature parity with discord.
Other then waiting on them to finish up the native mobile app.
I assume they have a web client, how does that do on mobile?
Yes, those are certainly a convenience that would be nice to have.
I just don't think they're "Be subjected to Discord" nice anymore.
I'll take on the burden of launching two executables and clicking two different windows in order to not be subjected to the endless monetization and privacy violations.
Not everyone agrees, that that's fine too. Using Discord (or Signal if your group is small and care more about privacy than open source) isn't wrong, but some people see the downsides as outweighing the benefits.
"not everyone agrees" explains the nail in the coffin for 99% of groups.
You need a 100% investment from the group or it's a hard stop.
Your average online group or gamer give zero fucks as long as it works.
For online gaming, that means voice, messaging, and forums in ONE click. You might get away without video.
For gaming, the current steps are ..
1 download discord (99% skip because they already have)
2 paste this link into discord (which they already know how to do)
DONE
You proposal? Just list them out for me for your non tech user... Download 3 different programs? Including separate sign on? learn three different programs.
AND NOTE THAT THIS IS JUST FOR YOUR GROUP.
Play 6 games, sorry each game has their own set of programs and logins and learning. And remembering which program you need to use for each.
If you think that's a workable "solution" to replacing discord, which is currently used for 95% of online gaming in a one stop shop...
Your a fucking delusional idiot. And that's being nice you.
The topic of the thread is about users migrating away from Discord due to privacy concerns over their ID requirements. If this doesn't apply to you, what is your purpose commenting? To tell us all that the thing in the OP isn't actually happening?
Your position is that:
Therefore nobody would replace Discord with Teamspeak and also use some other chat program (that's 2 programs! which is nearly as impossible as learning 3 programs!).
You're posting this opinion in a thread about users migrating to TeamSpeak and calling me the idiot?
That's certainly an opinion.
'Your' is the possessive form of you.
You're is the word you're looking for, as it is a contraction of 'you are' as in 'you are an idiot'.
Haha pointing out the wrong use of a possessive tells me everything I need to know about you.
I made fun of you because of your absolutely delusional refusal to acknowledge the extreme barriers to open source options in the current state.
If you weren't delusional, a logical response would be...
We absolutely have to address these issues if we want widespread adoption of these applications to replace closed source programs.