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Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Any alternative you would recommend? I'm mostly using it for video group call for dnd. Although convincing the group to change to yet another program would be the hardest part.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As far as self hosted I’ve heard a lot about matrix but haven’t tried it. Maybe I’ll give it a shot this weekend.

    https://matrix.org/

    There’s also telegram, slack, etc if you want something else commercial.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I've convinced few of my friends to use Matrix and it has been a really nice platform and now I prefer it to Discord not only because it respects user privacy but also because it doesn't have the nitro bs

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That’s great to hear. Somehow everyone and everything is on discord now and I really am not a fan of it what with all the pop ups and flashing shiny things to buy lol.

    I’ll try to get my smaller groups on matrix

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    you can run a bridge. I forget that friends are on discord sometimes bc it's so seamless, and they can't tell I'm not sending messages from discord either. I do have to use the discord app for voip tho

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does Matrix have video calls by now?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Microsoft Roblox ripped off Discord and branded it as Guilded GG. Features-wise for audio and game streaming, they offer higher quality than Discord for free.

    Is there any chance you'll get your group of friends to move to "MS Teams for gamers"? anything other than Discord? No chance.

    Edited: Correction that Guilded is owned by Roblox, not MS.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not sure if matrix does video calls, so if you're looking for something additional for that functionality, jitsi may be worth looking into. If I recall correctly its open source

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks for reminding me of jitsi! I'll see if my group would bite for a matrix and jitsi combo lol

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