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Baaron87@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The problem is there isn’t plenty of other options.

  Discord is one of those services independent web folk have been after a replacement for for years.

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  • Baaron87@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For an exact 1:1 replacement? Yeah, I do agree about that. If anyone looking for options doesn’t mind making some compromises it opens the doors quite a bit.

    I shared in another reply a link to some alternatives. Guilded seems to be the closest to a 1:1 replacement for now.

    My personal concern is having to repeat this again if the next proprietary platform becomes too big. My friend group has gone through google hangouts (it was a different time lol), the curse client, which became a Twitch product eventually and then Discord.

    I’m at the point where I’m considering going back to web forums and things like teamspeak/ventrillo.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • Baaron87@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oof. That’s news to me. I’m seeing some stuff about Stoat pop up. Guess that’s what I’ll look into next

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s the best alternative in your view?

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  • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m going to try self hosting stoat.chat not sure it has screen sharing yet, but apparently they just re-wrote all their voice/video stuff, so it should be available soon.

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    • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I like element honestly, it has everything I need. Element call as a recent implementation is nice for that sort of thing. It also supports screen sharing

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    • paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s also worth noting, you don’t need to self host. You can sign up for their hosted instance too.

      Of course, if you want to self host that’s great too.

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      • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m in the UK though, so they imply they may (already or in teh future) need to verify my age anyway.

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    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I tried tonight, pretty broken, couldn’t create voice channels at all

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  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tonight I’ve tried a bunch of options

    revolt/stoat, and I couldn’t make voice channels at all. If I could and it worked fine probably would have used that immediately

    spacebar chat, got the server running just fine, no idea which UI to use, and when I tried the options I couldn’t connect to the server and it was really clunky

    setup team speak 6, immediately wanted me to create an account on their servers, rm -rf

    setup mumble - might actually work, but looks like ass, friends are gonna be skeptical

    setting up full blown matrix now I guess.

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  • Baaron87@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For a potential 1:1 Discord alternative? The one that has stood out to me is Guilded. I started looking at alternatives last year when talk about this was starting to float around and forgot about it.

    Here’s a recent article with alternatives that I found in a quick search. Don’t agree with all of them personally, but I’m not the target audience for some of them.

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    • D1re_W0lf@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Guilded was great. Too bad it’s dead. 😕

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      • Baaron87@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, I just learned about that. Really unfortunate. Seems like Stoat is the next option

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  • Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly, what was wrong with Ventrillo for voice and literally any forum software for everything else?

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What about for video screen sharing?

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      • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Owncast?

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      • Vespair@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not something that has ever come up for me, personally. So I don’t have an answer for that one I guess, if that’s something that’s important to you.

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, except it’s not like you get to choose. If you are on the Discord server for rock climbing in your country, you can leave the community, but you don’t have “other options”.

  It’s not like the question is “what platform do I want to use for X?”. The question is “The X community uses Discord, do I want to be in it or not?” And of course you can choose to not join, but you don’t have an option to choose another app.

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  • Baaron87@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I definitely get what you’re saying on that. Leaving behind communities that you’re a part of, potentially for years or longer, is not appealing.

    The sad reality is that is where each individual person will have to weigh their options and beliefs.

    For me personally, I’m already down to just a few personal communities on Discord and for the one that I run, I will be migrating to either something like Stoat, Matrix or even a good old fashioned web forum. This all stems from not trusting Discord with my personal information, which works for me. Obviously not a one size fits all situation.

    It would be nice to see Discord realize that they’re making a huge mistake and backtrack the decision, but I don’t see that happening.

    Perhaps this will lead to communities migrating to web forums down the road? Only time will tell.

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• anas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I really need to watch the prequels again

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  • Baaron87@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dewit

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