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I like it in terms of engineering. It is a very complicated piece of software that works so well that they have been able to build a very large user base in no time. It
The downside is of course that it is close source and nightmare.
Their internal parts are nice, but their public API is a bit meh imo, specially considering their attitude towards devs. b1nzy, night and the others are not very welcoming, which has lead to some serious issues like Danny (author of the huge discord.py library and admin in the huge unofficial DAPI server) quitting.
Yeah, I would love for Discord to be more open sourced. Unfortunately there really isn't an open-sourced alternative out there for Discord like how Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit and Mastodon to Twitter and Pixelfed to Instagram.
There are literally dozen of open-source alternatives...
Excuse me for not knowing, I'm quite new to the Fediverse and FOSS, but what alternatives are there?
Well, I don't know about "dozens" of alternatives, but I can certainly think of a few. Off the top of my head there's Revolt and the many clients supporting the Matrix protocol. Cinny in particular seems to be trying to emulate Discord's look and feel.
That said, I haven't used Revolt and I've only used Matrix to send text messages. It does have voice chat, but I have no idea how well it works. As I understand it, Revolt seems to be further along on that front.
Iโll definitely have to check out Cinny especially I very much dislike the UI of Element after my roughly 30 minutes of trying to use it last night.
Iโll also take a bigger look at Revolt as well. Iโve heard that there are Bridge bits for Discord and Matrix that offer puppeting, is there something like that for Revolt?
Looks like it. You can find the list of bots for Revolt here.
Oooo! I'll definitely have to look into this tomorrow as it is already past midnight and I need sleep.