Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)

• aksdb@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But then it’s not chat anymore. Or screenshare.

  There are many good tools that solve individual issues. But Discord solved many of these issues in one tool, and that also has its charme.

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s precisely why they have to be resisted and/or we have to look for alternatives that Do One Thing Well. Among many other issues, the networking effect issue with EverythingApps is quite double-faceted in that, because they do everything, their “weight” not only acts as gilded cages to prevent people from leaving, but also to prevent developers, working on their spare time, from developing something that can be reasonably understood as an “alternative” (because the alternative has to also Do Everything).

    It’s basically playing a loser game to lose, see eg.: Mozilla always at best playing catch-up to Google, or why we can’t seem to move from BloatedWebWithReact to something like Gopher (or even make a proper Gopher 2.0).

    All that said, I feel like XMPP and Matterbridge are approaching this from the right perspective. Just implement a global communication protocol and leave to platform makers (or platform users) the task of bridging from and to whatever directions they want.

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  • briffy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The project I posted here yesterday focuses on providing text, voice and screen share. My goal is to provide an easy to host tool for those three things. Check it out if it’s just those things you want in a single package.

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