Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well that lines up with what I said.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Element is almost identical.

    element.io

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not even close.

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I only used it once a while ago. What doesn’t it do that Discord does that you also need?

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  SimpleX doesn’t even have a desktop client. Discord is mostly used for gaming.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do believe it does have a desktop client.

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    • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It DO! Which one am I mixing it up with then? Briar?

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nope, Briar has one as well.

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      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Possibly. Briar is mobile only as far as i know

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• big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  good luck trying to get family and friends on that lol

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Discord is not really intended for “friends and families”, it’s for communities.

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    • knightly@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not really for communities either, it’s for locking communities into a corporate platform.

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      • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        thats why right wingers love it over reddit, and facebook to. that way they can delete comments control things without having the discord admins hovering over them.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        …so it’s not for communities, it’s for communities…?

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      jitsi, interesting…

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me

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    • big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah, I get it. I told people one year for my bday to download the app for me to get most of my circle on it. most did haha

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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