real time communication is over-rated. Just use "async" communication on lemmy.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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Like Matrix?
Does matrix have decent voice chat these days?
It doesn't have decent anything yet but it'll get there eventually. The voice chat is actually one of it's stronger points IMO.
Matrix?
A post which seems to have disappeared, linked to this:
https://selfh.st/apps/?alternative=Discord
Backups/copies can be a Good Thing(tm).
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Check out matrix there's the synapse reference server but as someone who's run that for a while, I wanna run some of the rust ports for it like conduwuit or tunnwul. They seem more performant over synapse. Welcome to federation, it's a clusterfuck and it's awesome!
What are the critical features of Discord?
- group chat with history and some degree of searchability
- forums (but with more realtime features so it works a bit closer to a chat)
- voice calling, including groups
- video calling
- screen sharing
- mobile app with much the same features as desktop
- web app, ditto.
- “ownership” of specific spaces (“servers” in discord context)
- solid permission setup for visibility (like “roles” in discord)
- trivial startup effort
Other less-critical but still potentially important features:
- markdown-like formatting in posts/messages
- grouping of channels
- intermix of “forum” spaces with “groupchat” and “voice/video” spaces
I don’t know of any that cover all of those, and ymmv on how critical some of these are.
Movim (an XMPP client) covers most of that. I think it's currently working on having a collection of rooms be in one channel, but it already has group chats, group video calls, screen sharing, and permissions in groups.
It doesn't have forums in it, but it does allow users to have blogs.
Sounds like irc?