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Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
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[–] neblem@lemmy.world 50 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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..)
[–] SparkleVoid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Why is SimpleX not mentioned anywhere in the article or the comments here? I thought it is similar to Discord. Am I wrong?

[–] QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Some other alternatives not reviewed:

  • Spacebar
  • TeamSpeak
  • Root
[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Spacebar sounded really promising when I checked them out years ago.

The big Discord.com features currently left unimplemented or with partial implementations are: Voice/Video support (WebRTC protocol support implemented, but lacking UDP protocol implementation)

Unfortunately, seems like it’s still not at a point where it could cover basic Discord functionality.

Edit: I should be clear, I’m not trying to discourage it. I really hope it succeeds to the goal of parity with Discord! Love to hear from someone who has used it a bit.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

I mean, it certainly is an alternative to all three morons using discord as some sort of forum for an app or similar. The same way discord is the worst for easily searchable info like a forum is basically the converse for discourse. And exactly the opposite for real time chat obviously.

He at least mentions outright it's a forum tool. The real problem is having to include it because people misuse discord.

Kind of like anyone using SharePoint for anything. It's not meant for it.