Need alternatives to have built-in, easy to use screenshare with audio. And of course great noise filtering on voice chats.
insane
On one hand this is obviously absurd but on the other hand I don’t actually know how one could solve the sheer scale of pedophilia happening on their platform without some dystopian shit. It seems like there is a maximum size for something like discord because at the scale it is now I’m not sure how you could possibly moderate it. I’ll probably stop using it if they implement this but I can definitely understand why they feel like it’s a good idea.
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I don’t remember it like that at all. I saw lots of complaints about the privacy impacts and how ineffective it would be.
The hacker known as lemmy
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I’ve always hated Discord since the very beginning. At least now I have yet another really good reason.
Never used it, never will. Ventrilo for lyfe.
For me it’s Mumble. Open sourced and completely free with encryption, and temporary chat logs.
Ventrilo looks someone’s bad first open source project, but it’s proprietary. The audio quality must be orgasmic for people to use it.
Audio quality
- Teamspeak3, Discord and Mumble all use Opus Voice
- Teamspeak2 and Ventrilo used Speex and eventually CELT. CELT is decent but Opus is better.
WIth current hardware and cheap hosting, setting Opus Voice to max quality is best.
it’s what people used before things like discord, that and teamspeak
So like XMPP, SIP, Mumble, or Matrix without the chat part.
What happened to IRC? It worked great.
Nothing. Like, absolutely nothing. It didn’t keep up with the times. I spent am untold amount of time on IRC, but the fact that you have to be online to have a chance to read messages just doesn’t jive with most people’s schedules anymore.
Spam and other attacks did happen. And it doesn’t really handle being mobile or disconnected without style sort of proxy. Among other things.
It’s still there, but withered and infested. Kind of like Usenet and real email.
It was XFire -> TS -> Vent -> Skype -> Discord for me.
RIP XFire
Beginning of the end for discord probably.
I wish. I think it’s the beginning of the end to anonymous online presenses. It’s becoming more and more common for things like this to be required by corporate social media.
Element is a good alternative, OpenSource and federated
Future headline: “Discord users begin testing Discord alternatives”
Already started. Revolt seems like it could be a near 1 to 1 replacement soon.
Maybe we can all go back to AIM
It’s proprietary and centralized. No practical difference. IRC and XMPP are the way.
Too bad team speak hasn’t released their updated server files.
I’ve never quit using teamspeak but I’d never see it as an alternative for the chatting functions of discord (neither private or server wide). Calling and screensharing on it is superior for sure, chatting is garbage.
Embedded matrix client and Teamspeak client in a webpage? Selfhost it.
I’m sure it can’t be that hard. I’m planning on rolling out something similar, if it works I’ll like the source code here.
I’m not a technical person, can’t be bothered for that. In the end for tools like this its important non-tech people can also use it
This is something that I feel like should be at the top of every single tech related community. Not everyone is a techie and they shouldn’t have to be to exiat in the modern world.
We really need more people working on tech that both has great privacy but also simplicity. Currently you always have to pick between convenience or privacy. Everybody that keeps pushing self hosting doesn’t get that not everybody has the skills or time to set that up.
I work in IT, I do QA, I write test automation code, I setup CI/CD pipelines but the moment you put me on networking stuff I’m done, gg well played. It’s a whole new skillset so if I as someone who grew up and work in a technical job has a hard time with it don’t even think its going mainstream.
This 1000%
Great. Now I have to wear aging makeup because of my baby face.
oh sweet discord phrenology
Its going to be so fucking racist isn’t it.
soooo, honest opinions of discord users here: hows matrix nowadays? what are the other options?
Element x is pretty solid but not perfect, matrix-rust-sdk needs to have desktop clients, servers need to support all the new stuff, I give element 5 years before it’s a top tier messenger
It really depends on how you use Discord. Matrix was never trying to be a Discord alternative so for some usecases it’s fine, but for a place to hang out with your friends and play video games it’s not.
And just like that I uninstalled the app, never to login again. It wasn’t that important for me anyway.
consider requesting a GDPR data request, and when that’s completed a GDPR data deletion. the former mostly to have a backup for you, you can skip it if you don’t find it important
A lot of games and mods use Discord almost exclusively for their discussions, but I always found Discord groups hard to follow. So much random talk among a few bits of good information.
Steam community boards are underrated.
Please give me a federated, self-hosted Discord alternative! I’m tired of these bullshit platforms.
Not federated, but Revolt can be self-hosted and is very similar to Discord in the look and feel from what I have seen (I have it installed, but haven’t tried getting friends to install it and am not hosting). So it could be worth looking into for folks that are used to Discord.
It’s not federated, the developer is specifically against federation. He didn’t even support self-hosting properly and officially, until the community made pullrequests in this regard themselves. Revolt is mainly made to be hosted by the developer himself. Probably just another Discord. Open-sourcing the code doesn’t do anything.
facebook does the same thing, except also requires a photo ID too. it seems alot right wingers have migrated to these 2 platforms so they can control narratives better, better off staying away from these platforms.
How am I going to rip on them until they have aneurysms if I’m not on there too?
Byeeeeee
