Submitted 1 day ago by RustyNova@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
I’m wondering if anyone made a fediverse like (aka multiple instances talking to eachother) for discord?
I know matrix exists, but it’s only rooms instead of servers with channels, etc…
You sure? It’s not identical but it’s close 'nough. (matrix)
To answer your question, there’s no alternative besides matrix. Sorry.
There is revolt and rocket.chat but yes I’d still do matrix over the others unless a direct discord-like clone is absolutely a must for some reason
Yep, but OP asked for a federated one and neither of those federate, which is why i didn’t include them
Does it have voice channels?
yes it does, and it works as well as discord, it’s just in beta and not supported everywhere yet
Sadly, no. In that case mumble is the best choice.
How do you find spaces/communities to join?
This doesn’t cover all rooms. However, for a bigger list use: matrixrooms.info
Press "Join public room"
Matrix has “communities” which can kind of work like discord servers
There are “servers” on Matrix. They are called communities
Here is the relevant part of the documentation for that: matrix.org/docs/communities/getting-started/
Wait, I thought those were called spaces. Have I been calling them wrong all the time?
it’s only rooms instead of servers with channels…
Literally the same thing but with different names. I use Matrix with Element, and it is exactly the same as Discord.
From a chat standpoint, the two are near identical - yes - but Matrix lacks the “voice/video calls as persistent rooms” feature that Discord has. This was planned a while back, but has recently been sunset.
Early on Matrix was sort of being built up as an IRC/Discord alternative, but recently they’ve pivoted more towards a WA/Telegram/Slack alternative as most of their financial support comes from European governments and companies looking for strong and secure internal communication solutions they can manage themselves.
So, TL;DR you probably won’t see the exact Discord like features you want land in the spec any time soon as they’re not being funded.
So that means, right now:
Having said all that, Matrix is brilliant and I highly encourage people to check it out. I use a Matrix <-> Signal bridge for most of my comms with my friends, and we voice chat on Mumble. Not ideal, but you get to avoid Discord and you get a very similar experience! Bonus points for Mumble as it’s super lightweight.
Do people not use discord for voice chat? Hop in hop out permanent voice channels that show if your friends are already in or not?
Last I looked you have to use Discord, Teamspeak, or Mumble for this
Element has both voice and video chat. It needs to be enabled first in the settings.
IRC still exists
The AP is not really good for chats, so I would rather use the Matrix protocol that Element, for example, offers as a client.
No ActivityPub federated one yet. Someone might make it someday though.
Dansup of Pixelfed and Loops fame is working on an IM app called Sup. Info seems sparse on it though.
That isn’t exactly a discord clone, though. More like WhatsApp but federated.
I never became a discord guy, but it seems like IRC (not federated the same way lemmy/mastodon/etc are but functionally similar) would meet the requirements.
While it’s probably not exactly what you’re looking for, I wanted to give vibe coding a try and wound up making a discord like client if you think it might be handy. It’s not actually a chat server, it’s just a client that uses a chat style layout to display posts under the mastodon api.
Revolt
Not federated
Is Revolt actually Federated? I only see sign ups for a single instance, unless I’m missing something
It’s open source but not federated
Which is not federated, otherwise I would recommend it immediately
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.
There’s also XMPP. It’s not quite the same as discord, but it’s another federated chat protocol.
It’s not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.