Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

• other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fluxer apparently has that on their roadmap. https://blog.fluxer.app/roadmap-2026/

  As part of #3, I’d also like to add the ability to publish forums to the open web. That way, people can discover, archive, and access discussions without logging in.

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  • Emopunker@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds great. I hope it has video chat and screenshare or will implement it soon.

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    • other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They do have those things from what I can tell.

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  • 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.

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    • 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

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      • craigers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        My issues with matrix were mostly around the voice services.

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    • 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.

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      • craigers@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Haha I opened a github issue on that and the main Dev confirmed they were getting the HoD.

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  • 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.

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• pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As long as the alternative is not another chat app that is not indexable by search engines. F

  For me this is the biggest probem about Discord and Discord alternatives why not just use Lemmy what’s the problem with Lemmy?

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  • 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.

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    • 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)

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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