With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

We need a damn federated Discord! Stoat and Root are bandaids until they either shut down themselves or degrade.

Do NOT reply to me with Matrix. It'll be a federated Discord when it actually gets some uptake for more than just Fediverse instance rooms.

[–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Fluxer.app looks promising. It's still in very early dev, but according to the site:

These features are coming soon:

...

Opt-in E2EE messaging

E2EE calls

Federation

...

The public beta looks pretty good but it's currently very slow. There is a large refactor going on so I'm hoping for the best, but even in its current state it seems to support many of Discord's biggest features quite well.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That feature list looks too good to be true ha ha

[–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 3 points 6 hours ago

I can dream lol

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I am now waiting manual review

[–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Really? That's new, I signed up this morning and it just worked. They must be being hammered by people leaving Discord too

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 6 hours ago

Well yes, it says: "To manage the influx of users during our public beta, we are throttling registrations...."

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

As you seem to appreciate, 95% of the time matrix is exactly what's needed. People seem to hate it because it's slightly different than discord, but anything that isn't discord is going to have that problem. It also has other problems, but at least it's not as bad as fucking discord.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago

I mean Stoat and Root just do not have that problem. They look like Discord.

All that we need is that but federated.

Also Matrix lacks key Discord-like features in terms of voice chat, screen sharing etc.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

Imo all it needs is for 2.0 to come out and for discord-like clients like cinny to mature to get to a point where it's a good discord replacement, and both of those seem pretty close to happening.

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There's Shoot.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Any active Shoot instances?

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Don't think so. I mean there is the web client which does give a default instance, but it requires an invite code.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, if that can develop further and some people start to take it up - it could become more of a thing.