Now that people have moved from reddit to lemmy I’m glad to be using more FOSS software. Now all that’s left is discord but I can’t find a good replacement.
https://matrix.org/ might be interesting to you
Revolt and Matrix/Element
Matrix is good but it feels more like a WhatsApp group or something. Definitely room there to have a client that’s more fun, like Discord
Been checking out matrix clients and so far Cinny looks and feels closer to discord and fluffychat is pretty good to. Both work better then element in my experience
If you get Beeper.com which is based on Matrix.org you can have both: FOSS and chatting with your friends on Discord.
Isn’t it subscription based?
Thought so too, but they actually don’t charge anything. Wonder if I’m the product then.
https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-is-now-free Turns out they are going to provide a “Plus” version with extra features for paying customers. So, its not bad I guess!
@Secret300 This really depends heavily on what parts of #Discord you’re trying to replace, as nothing currently has a 1:1 similarity with it. #Matrix will likely get you most of what you want but self-hosting it can be quite a sizable task. #Mumble is an excellent choice if your main concern is voice rooms, text chat is not so great. The ““best”” option would probably be to mix mumble with xmpp, as both do what they’re designed to do very well and are also quite easy to maintain.
Is self hosting Matrix really that hard? So far it looks like matrix is what I want. They don’t have good voice features right now but it looks like they are working on it
@Secret300 I wouldn’t say it was hard. The replication part of matrix can get very big, very fast. If you’re not prepared for that, it could easily get out of hand.
So basically have a lot of storage ready?
I used the ‘betterdiscord-installer’.
Ferdium still looking good.
However, Discord isn’t so much an application as a protocol - you’re just changing the client.
Confusion here between ‘Service’ and ‘Software’ methinks…
Here’s Discord running in a FOSS browser…
So I wouldn’t be worrying about software.
Alright buddy you got me I used the wrong term. I meant service