Top three are:
- Discourse
- Rocket.chat
- Matrix
Discord Alternatives, Ranked
Submitted 5 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/
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SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
iamthetot@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
I don’t really see how someone can position Discourse as the number one Discord alternative. Surely most people looking to ditch Discord want live chat, audio/video calls, and screen sharing… Or am I just in the minority here?
For the record, I think Discourse looks awesome and even thinking about how I might use it for a project, but I do not see it as a Discord alternative.
markz@suppo.fi 3 hours ago
Lots of communities use discord as a replacement for a forum despite it not being fit for it at all
karashta@piefed.social 4 hours ago
I also want this suite of things. I stream movies to friends, share games I’m playing…
These are core features to me now in a robust chat client
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 hours ago
A lot of people don’t seem to realize that Discord has a variety of features, and each feature can be more or less useful for different types of communities. The ones I’ve used NEVER used anything but text chat.
Cheems@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I used to use to for audio calls now I use it more for a forum.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Live chat is all I ever use but you never know
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
I thought Discourse was bought by Roblox, merged into Roblox, and then discontinued outside of Roblox?
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 minutes ago
Discourse isnt free
And its been described as more of a forum than a chat service
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 hours ago
I love that Discourse is open. I hate that it’s just horrendous from a usability perspective. Flarum is much better than that, in my opinion, while being way more flexible. Examples:
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 minutes ago
Matrix is probably the most well funded and supported open source platform that might be able to compete with Discord but even then it’s not a fair fight.
Sadly most people won’t leave discord. People will forget about this next week.
weedee@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
neblem@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not reviewed in this eval:
- DeltaChat (though would likely score similar to Signal with more points for decentralization)
- IRC
- XMPP
- Lemmy/PieFed/Nodebb (if he’s going to include Discourse…)
QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 15 minutes ago
Some other alternatives not reviewed: - Spacebar - TeamSpeak - Root
plz1@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
Yeah, it was immediately clear based on the scoring that he was super biased toward Discourse. It’s not a Discord alternative, and had no place in that list at all.
Strider@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
No, he hasn’t been running a discord server. It’s a channel. Discord is running the servers.
jcorvera@quokk.au 14 minutes ago
The older terminology, which is still used in the API, was a lot better.
It was Guild. It was a Discord Guild. Probably because Stanislav was working on it after he abandoned Guildwork.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
God, I hated that terminology when I needed to talk with people about discord.
Strider@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I can only assume it’s on purpose so average users really understand it wrong to avoid the associated negative view. Clever, really. But absolutely evil.
exist@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
Users (and I think Discord too) call the communities servers, and channels are the individual topics/threads in a community. It might not make sense from a hosting perspective but people do call it that
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I highly doubt that when you start a “Discord server”, there’s any new machinery spun up. There is a near 100% chance it’s just an entry in a database. Nobody’s running a server just for him. So I don’t think there’s even reason to be charitable.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
I’m not going to be able to get anyone else to use an alternative, so what’s it matter?
orochi02@feddit.org 38 minutes ago
I mean back when Skype was still in use my Friends convinced me to use dc (and I hated it)
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
If Stoat (formerly Revolt) can integrate screen sharing capabilities soon enough, they will be the closest experience to Discord. Even the UI is familiar, if you come from Discord.
MiahNelah@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Switching to a self-hosted good old Teamspeak 6. Their screen sharing is very good, and audio quality is far above Discord. Overall it’s still need some polish but is okay.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 hours ago
Isn’t that closed source tho?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Maybe, but let’s deal with one crisis at a time
MiahNelah@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
True. At least it’s self-hosted. I just hope some real alternative to Discord comes soon.
markz@suppo.fi 3 hours ago
Should still be a massive upgrade to discord in terms of how much you’re getting shafted
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 hour ago
Teamspeak sounds familiar, I think I had issues with them once before. Is it the one bundled with that OverWolf malware?
Nima@leminal.space 4 hours ago
did he not try stoat? he just put a bunch of question marks there.
I’d have thought if that was the case it’d be left out of the rankings.
naught@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I did. It isn’t a viable selfhosted alternative atm unless you want to do actual dev work
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 minutes ago
So, if it was like Signal and didn’t let you self host at all it would have ranked on this list?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
If we’re referring to the article in the link, being self-hosted didn’t seem to be a hard requirement, merely that the app is a potential alternative.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
This reminds me that a saw someone like luisus rossman reccomend a discord like thing that worked as a better forum/wiki/discord for small developers that’s shows up on web searches, I think it had real time chat but I can’t remember
markz@suppo.fi 3 hours ago
Found a new way to misspell his name
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
How many of these have moderation issues? Like, unwanted content uploads and stuff. How many expose you to accidentally hosting illicit content?
ignirtoq@feddit.online 1 hour ago
That’s his “safety” category in his rankings. He talks about moderation tools and risks like bad actors posting illicit content quite a bit, actually.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 51 minutes ago
Wow, so signal is the worst at dealing with unwanted CSAM uploads? What wild ranking system this guy has.
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Discord Alternatives: Discord
what the hell?
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 hours ago
What’s a control group?
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 hours ago
It does say “as a baseline” so presumably its just there for comparison’s sake
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I went ahead and used it as an alternative anyway. Man, this is JUST like Discord.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Discord os actually discord, not an alternative to discord
BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s an alternative to an alternative to Discord. Which makes it an alternative.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I can’t imagine “Discourse”'s branding will survive for long.
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Revolt is good too
QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 24 minutes ago
Looks like they changed their name to Stoat.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Tangential but figure eyes are probably on here:
Any good guides or discussions for setting up and running Matrix in a VPS? Been thinking on and off I should do that for a few months now (and lack of account migration means I either start with my own domain or forever use a generic).
misterbngo@awful.systems 1 hour ago
should also look into conduit or one of its siblings, normal synapse is a dog to run
zykhe@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Matrix ansible deployment script
zykhe@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
aliceblossom@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Just to emphasize, this is the correct answer
WraithGear@lemmy.world 16 minutes ago
i notice people not mentioning team speak 6. when our discord group were planning everything team speak 6 seemed to be the winner. it’s not free, but if i am hosting it with a license and have more control over the experience, then its not that big of a deal. from what i gather team speak 6 has better faster audio, and a better screen share for gaming. but we only just started poking around at options atm.