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Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads (discord.com)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

RIP Discord.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾.

There is one community I’m active in on Discord, and it’s a very wholesome and positive one id hate to lose, but damn I’m hating Discord.

Is there a CLI Discord client for Linux? I could tolerate that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can host your own matrix instance then bridge discord (and everything else from LinkedIn messenger to WhatsApp) to matrix with double puppeting so people won’t even realise you’re not on discord.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Hmmmmmm that is an option. I am a user of matrix

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wanna see my orbs on discord?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Is there a peer to peer equivalent to Discord? That feels like it would be the best option, since it wouldn't rely on a centralized company that could enshittify the product.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Only option available is Matrix. It has its problems, but they're being worked on.

Right now it lacks the gaming/voice chat parts of discord - so for an OSS alternative for that part of discord specifically, there's Mumble.

For everything else, Matrix is a good alternative. Just be sure to pick a discord-like client. (E.g. Commet or Cinny)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use Jitsi for my voip / screen share

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Works great if you don't want/need PTT.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Leave Zenyatta alone, Discord >:(

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Hopefully Revolt (a Fediverse alternative to Discord) continues to improve and can completely take the place of Discord relatively soon.

Edit: it might only be FOSS, not federated. Still a promising project though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think Revolt is Fediverse, afaik it's entirely centralized without plans for interop or federation
Please update me if I just didn't find the right reference

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

You're correct.

As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.

However, this does not necessarily mean federation is off the table, possible avenues are:

Implement our own federation protocol

Implement a promising up and coming federation protocol, polyproto

Implement the Matrix protocol (unlikely, obtuse and unstable)

Implement the XMPP protocol (battle-tested and stable)