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Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [M, B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 38 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't enen mention XMPP or Mumble, thus probably badly researched.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah they don't seem to care about calling at all, with giving discourse such a high score.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Which is what made Discord so popular, over TeamSpeak. It made proper voice calling dead simple.

    The article is entirely pointless, there’s plenty of forum and chat software, what set discord apart was voice. And anyone ranking Matrix that high has no clue what they’re talking about.

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    • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Nice. Doesn't cover video chat/screen share options, but this is a good rundown.

    If you don't care about privacy or security AT ALL, there are some additional options like Guilded.

    TeamSpeak6 is also out, and is great for voice/video, but is missing the forum-like chat experience.

    Unfortunately, there are no drop-in replacements. All of them involve sacrificing functionality in some sense.

    Maybe the recent controversies will drive additional development.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Haven't used it much, but for the irc-part Stoat (Revolt) seems to cover Discord pretty much 1:1.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    yeah but I also need voice / video for our dnd group, not sure if Stoat offers that.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    It will - at some point - I hope. There are efforts being made currently to make the Livekit-based video chat available for the self-hostable container.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Last I read is that it is implemented, just not enabled. Also that you should be able to enable it when you self host. According to this comment.

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    • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Alright XMPP chads let's see how we ranked on this one!

    ....

    throws controller

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    [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    '?' - '5' = 10

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