As a gamer, Discord is my most difficult to replace anti privacy platform. It is “the social media for gamers™” after all.
I’ve tried Matrix many times, and every server I’ve joined has felt dead. I couldn’t find many gaming centric communities there either, and absolutely none that had any activity.
Do you still use Discord or have you successfully replaced it?
Discord’s main killer feature is Discovery of who is currently voice chatting in a room.
I’ve not seen any alternative platform that has the same level of voice discovery that discord does. Discord makes it easy to have a community, oh I see Bob’s online, let’s jump in and say hi.
It really is the local bar, you can just walk up and talk to anybody. That is absolutely critical. It’s open discovery, it’s effortless communication of status.
For all the people talking about discord just being another chat service, that’s absolutely true, that’s not what makes it critical.
Revolt is the most promising alternative but I haven’t seen anyone really use it.
You’re not asking for a platform. You’re asking for alternative communities.
Communities are the hardest thing to move. Fact is, people use discord because the people they talk with are on discord. Same as any other social platform.
You can use Revolt Chat (revolt.chat). It’s fully open source and free!
If revolt did federation so my friends could join my server from others that would make it a straight up replacement, but I can’t ask my friends to create a login for each server. I hope they bump that in priority because it’s the last thing I need to switch
Teamspeak is still a thing
Indeed, levert to teamspek if you want to selfhost. Ts3 has community features such as chat and channels and whatever too
i am on mumble, which is basically interchangeable with ts3. they just won’t accept my beta signup for ts4…
Matrix is great, but yeah, you’re gunna struggle to find really active communities depending on what you are focused on.
I can get a few of my close friends on Matrix, but the real issue is most of the FOSS and tech communities I’m a part of are on Discord.
It’s rapidly enshitifying though, so might not be long before I leave it for good.
I still use discord with friends, matrix if more for foss software comunitys imo (kde, godot etc). As lkng as Discord doesn’t test their luck with people like Reddit does people will stay there. That was a case with Skype.
ArmCord which reduces some of Discords privacy invading tracking. It also lets you install handy QoL features via a plugin manager. Fyi, it’s against Discords ToS but who cares about that.
Arm Holdings has issued a cease & desist against Armcord being named Armcord, by the way.
Pretty much just now, they rebranded to Legcord
I don’t play games, so I don’t have such problems - maybe a little bit of mobile games and casual RPG grinding simulator. But if it’s about open-source communities, I use Matrix exclusively. Using IRC is annoying, but I do use it sometimes.
Same with me. I really feel I should quit discord but I lose all of my online friends.
My friends and I use Matrix. Other than that, yeah, Matrix really lacks servers for gamers.
Discord doesn’t need a replacement, for me, because discord doesn’t have a use case, for me. I don’t know what people use it for. It’s like shitty IM with strangers.
