just like we had lemmygrad.ml as an alternative for Reddit, we need to have an alternative for discord. discord's new policies have been supressing servers and members left and right. Now there are some options that I want to present here

Guilded: Basically very nice UI, it's completely free most nitro features of discord are completely free on Guilded. it has got more features that discord doesn't have the only issue is that it is gaming centric and majority communities are related to gaming

Revolt: Github open source like lemmy same features as discord, good UI, there are some features like that it lacks but upcoming and promising.

slack and matrix are trash don't fall for it

If somehow discord server gets banned, you would be thanking me for this.

thank you for reading and upvoting

  • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Matrix has baked in encryption, can be self hosted and has a large team of developers behind it so it is least likely to not be vapourware. The clients are not great but that's a fine compromise. With their newly released rust SDK some might become faster. But I guess it's trash because you can't spam emotes in it.

    • SpiderEye@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago
      1. Matrix is slow af
      2. Matrix has less features than aforementioned alternatives, it doesn't even have proper media sharing code, all embeds stay as it is
      3. UI is bad, comparatively
      4. matrix also asks for money for additional features which is not the case for guilded and revolt
      5. matrix is more like telegram chat than an actual server
      • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 years ago
        1. Matrix is fast if you self host, which is free. I have one we can use if necessary.
        2. Its actually secure, self hostable, and encrypted, unlike the others you mentioned.
        3. UI rules, and it has apps on every platform.
        4. No, 100% of its features are available if you self host: its an open source project.
        5. It has spaces, ie collections of rooms, which are the same as discords if that's what you're thinking of.
        • SpiderEye@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 years ago

          iirc there are some features you will get after buying element home subscription. not to mention matrix also crashes sometimes and quite often you might have to wait for a long time

          • Arsen6331 ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, it is often slower than Discord. The reason for this is that it's decentralized and encrypted. It's slow because it's secure. I'd rather lose a few minutes of time than have the US government spy on me.