Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Use Mastodon. You can use a server outside of your country. And even if your country attempts to find the operator, 10% of their global turnover of zero is still zero.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Mastodon isn’t really a replacement for discord though.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
True. Matrix is more for that. Or possibly SimpleX.
big_slap@lemmy.world 2 days ago
good luck trying to get family and friends on that lol
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
Discord is not really intended for “friends and families”, it’s for communities.
msage@programming.dev 2 days ago
My mother and sister is on my homeserver.
Also my SO.
And my every friend.
And we use Jitsi for calls during gaming or whatnot.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 days ago
All it took for me is discord going down for a couple hours a couple of weeks ago. Now about half my friends went to it. All it will take is a small push or down time and they will need their fix somehow lol.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
Unfortunately there’s not really anything that comes close to Discord.
Revolt is the closest, as it’s open source and self-hostable but still lacks many of the features and isn’t federated.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Element is almost identical.
element.io
executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Everyone keeps recommending Revolt but I tried it last week and it’s janky as hell and the voice chat just straight up didn’t work. This wasn’t just me, too. Our whole group tried it and gave up.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 days ago
SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. Discord is mostly used for gaming.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I do believe it does have a desktop client.