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”.

  • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    it’s Element/Matrix if we’re lucky. Revolt is just another Discord - surely this single company will last! With Element/Matrix being an open protocol, it won’t be a “platform” you have to leave when it goes corporate.

      • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Yes, which is good, but the lack of federation is a deal-breaker. It means that you either:

        1. Use their servers - This requires entrusting them with your communities, just like Discord.
        2. Host your own private instance - You can control it, but the lack of federation means it’ll be isolated from communicating with other communities. This makes it really difficult to convince people to use your self-hosted servers.

        Until Revolt adds a way for different instances to federate, Matrix is really the only other option.

  • assaultpotato@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m running a Matrix server with a FB Messenger bridge via mautrix-meta and that makes it a clear winner. Half my group chats have migrated entirely since I’ve set my close friends up with accounts in my server and they also use the bridge. The fact that people can slowly migrate chats without losing messages or groups is killer for adoption imo.

  • Forester@pawb.socialEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Honestly, I am ready to go straight back to TeamSpeak.

    I miss hosting my own server and having full access and control over it

    I used to just host it on a piece of shit. 2003 Dell XP machine I put Ubuntu on

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Hell yah, TS3 crew all the way. (Or TS5 for the zoomers…)

      My nerds herd recently also set up a cluster of Matrix Synapse servers so we got our little “We have Telegram at home” set up. Getting non-tech people to accept that this is how to find me has been tricky without sounding like a digital prepper.