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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

waiting for the day we're all on IRC again...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I read the article, but nothing can convince me the discord execs aren't purely thinking of how ways to further enshittify.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So does anyone know a proper alternative that doesn’t scare every non-tech person on my server?

I already lost people when we initially moved from a facebook group to discord.

I believe i can self-host a matrix client but no idea how well it will work with people currently having notifications by discord bot on their phone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I believe i can self-host a matrix client but no idea how well it will work with people currently having notifications by discord bot on their phone

In my opinion discord is not yet enshittified enough for these problems to be easily solved. Give it a couple more years, if matrix gains just a bit more traction, the scaffolding to do stuff like that will be worked out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Keet is pretty cool and (granted I am a tech person) is pretty dead simple to use.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There’s very little that doesn’t scare non tech people.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

According to tech people. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

No, people just don't want to learn anything. They want everything to stay the same and never make compromises. No there is never a drop in one to one replacement for Discord or Windows or whatever else.

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

Sadly, no. I managed to bring a friend on Signal after years, 3 monthes later they asked me if it's ok if we talk on WhatsApp because it's too bothersome to use two different apps.

smh my head.

[–] corsicanguppy 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

3 [months] later they asked me if it’s ok if we talk on WhatsApp because it’s too bothersome to use two different apps.

Hey, remember in the age of about 9 different messenger protocols, when Pidgin allowed you to message people on the platform they preferred without too much fuss?

The "things we lost in the post-y2k culling of clue and mentorship" box is running out of space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Pidgin is still around, and you can even use discord with it (no voice, mind you).

I would like to bring the multi-platform client back.

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

That's not because it's scary or people can't understand how to use it, it's just bothersome.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How is it better then discord?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Well, discording is better than revolting

[–] corsicanguppy 3 points 1 week ago

https://revolt.chat/

Safe binaries we can validate with signed manifests, or just ISO27002-violating FlatSnappImage spooge?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I heard Element just added screensharing

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

It's still in beta and audio appears to not always work when streaming. Though, there's recent activity on the related issues, so hopefully it gets out of beta before Discord alienates the regular user.

I tested it a few days ago and besides the audio problem it appears to work very well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Element with Matrix.org is getting pretty decent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I signed up with Matrix and it was not seamless but maybe a private server would be great and they could go from there (but that feels like a long term commitment to supporting those users). I haven't really played much with it. Tried getting the folks in my discord server to give it a try but they haven't and they are tech folks. I would say it's not ready for normies, but I really wish it was.

I still have it installed on my phone, but I don't really have anywhere interesting to go. Same with Signal TBH—it's installed but no one I know uses it. Still waiting on my invite from the Secretary of Defense.

[–] corsicanguppy 2 points 1 week ago

feels like a long term commitment

says the guy who also says

my discord server

as if the two ideas aren't the same.

If you do it right, too, the private server is $0 in continuing labour.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

It already is (and was long before any ads)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

With discord already being pretty shitty, I am interested in what ideas they are coming up with.

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

Anyone know of a Matrix client that supports sound sharing?

Or at least a method on adding sound to the screen share for the window you’re focused on?

I feel like it would be an easier sell to someone to ditch Discord if that functionality could be preserved. Haven’t found it myself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You could use jitsi meet. Kinda similar to zoom though imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I think you can also use Jitsi as a plugin from within Matrix