There is stoat.chat (formerly Revolt). But you wont find much help on Lemmy or Mastodon. A lot of people on the fediverse have an aversion to Discord because when they try it, they have difficulty with it like a senior citizen with a smartphone. Even though Matrix and Discord arent similar, people on the fediverse will still try to recommend you Matrix, because they think Discord is just another messenger and not like having a forum, teamspeak, jitsi and other stuff in one program. And even if you explain it like that, they will be like “but then you can just use a forum, matrix, jitsi and a screenshare program separately” or something like that.
It’s too bad the open source community couldn’t find some programmers to help them make an alternative.
Emopunker@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
stressballs@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Lol. I can vouch for this.
Hell my friends are still Stans for IRC and will literally argue it has everything you need.
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Open source community always loses to capitalists, because people won’t do the work unless there’s money involved. Otherwise there would be open source alternatives that are better and more popular. What incentive do smart programmers have to help the open source community when they’re better off earning 180k+ per year programming for the financial sector?
stressballs@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nonsense. Open source built the web. Open source isn’t some new anti fascist trend… What are you smoking?
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Open source built the web
Yeah and how’s that working out, in the context of the subject of this thread.
stressballs@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Open source didn’t crumble under the weight of inevitability. It fell apart because corporate interests profiting off of it decided it was more profitable to create cultures antithetical to the guardrails that open source presents to exploitation and co-option.
BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 3 weeks ago
As long as the alternative is not another chat app that is not indexable by search engines. Forums fill the role pretty well, I don’t understand why devs would use Discord in the first place.
other_cat@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Fluxer apparently has that on their roadmap. https://blog.fluxer.app/roadmap-2026/
Emopunker@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Sounds great. I hope it has video chat and screenshare or will implement it soon.
other_cat@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
They do have those things from what I can tell.
craigers@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As someone who has spent the last 2+ years testing revolt/stoat, matrix with element, and teamspeak, desperately searching for any viable discord alternative, I’m very interested in this. Where did you come across it? I tried to create an account but stuck pulsing on a loading screen.
lorenzoquintavalle@mastodon.uno 2 weeks ago
@craigers @other_cat can I ask what was the issue with using matrix as a discord replacement? I would like to propose it to some friends, so it would be good to know if there are some fatal flaws
other_cat@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
One of my friends’ husbands brought it up, so good old word of mouth.
I did notice I wasn’t able to get logged in last night, though the night before I was able to make an account without issue. I wonder if they got a hug of death like Stoat did.
itsmistermoon@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I saw earlier that Zulip already has that option, but I still would much prefer a regular old forum.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
For me this is the biggest probem about Discord and Discord alternatives why not just use Lemmy what’s the problem with Lemmy?
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Also not very searchable on engines, especially due to fediverse server name differences, you can’t !lemmy because many of the communities don’t have Lemmy in their domain or titles or however that works. At least I have only gotten Lemmy results for like 25% of my searches.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
But you don’t need Google to search lemmy,. lemmy’s internal search is very good and you got whole index (even without an account)
stressballs@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Discord took the place of IRC. Chatlogs for IRC were rarely indexed by most channel admins until after about 2010 when projects like freenode hosted all the open source projects for the whole web.
It was purchased by some right wing billionaire and now it is no longer.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
But in a success story for open source software, the entire community migrated from freenode to libera.chat in like 2 days.
The way to defeat enshittification is by disallowing lock-in.
stressballs@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Gen Z will not comply with this. They’d rather lick boots and get bullied by chuds. They treat social media networks like kids in the 80s treated 7-11. And they will not leave.