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Get yourself and your friends on Matrix with Element or any other GUI program for Matrix. You're on Lemmy, try out Matrix
if only people bothered, even Linux oriented discords don't want to move to Matrix even though the experience was nearly identical
I love Matrix but it really isnt a good discord replacement. It's much closer to Telegram or Lemmy. It doesnt even have voice channels, the main reason everyone I know uses Discord. I hope we do get a proper decentralized discord alternative at some point.
Element does have voice/video channels.
Channels that function similar to discords? You can start a voice call in a room or create voice calls, but those function pretty differently from Discord voice channels.
I remember setting up persistent rooms with jitsi that function like discord rooms, I guess not native, but it was from a plugin that was near native. There was also a feature I remember them mentioning for drop in video calls, but I haven't tried those.
I won't argue it's a full replacement, I think you still can't do push to talk or toggle mute, which is pretty disqualifying for me. But it's definitely closer than Telegram or Lemmy.
Neat, I haven't tried the Jitsi integration so I wasn't aware it had persistent rooms. That's the main thing I need to exist, I'll have to give it a try. Although, I do still greatly prefer the format of servers and channels, rather than spaces and rooms.
That's fair, I know there is like communities or something, but they seem a bit janky. It's definitely not "there", but it's better than some of it's reputation suggests.
If only it was that simple…