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Discord was already succumbing to enshitification. Now with their intention to be owned by Wall Street, that trajectory will certainly accelerate at warp speed once the change of hands happens.

Anyone already get ahead of this and find a solid alternative?

Right now I'm on the fence between Element for Matrix, and Revolt. Both seem to have their pros and cons and I can't find a clear "winner".

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago (10 children)

If you're self hosting, it's Revolt. But the default instance limits you to 20mb or something for files, which is a problem for me, personally.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Revolt is also an annoyance to self host and the apps don’t support self hosted instances without you rebuilding them because the server is hardcoded.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why even give the option then lmao

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

That’s just it, it isn’t an option

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[–] DaveX64@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've been tinkering with old BBS software :)

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[–] Rhaxapopouetl@ttrpg.network 5 points 3 days ago

Alternatives to discord, open source or not:

https://alternativeto.net/software/discord-app/

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Element/matrix all the way

if you want something that looks like discord there are themes for the clients, there's even commet.chat for a discord like experience (but they haven't added calls yet)

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Why use Element for matrix?

From what I can tell it collets and links data to you: Location, identifiers and contact information.

How is that private or better than Signal?

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I use Signal for private and personal messages. I use Discord solely for gaming and voicechat. A good alternative doesn't need to be overly private (although that would be a bonus of course). It just needs to have a good UI and feature parity with Discord.

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