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Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?

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[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What's a good alternative that allows easy instant message, voice and video calls, and makes it easy to group my friends by game?

[–] femtech@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have been using revolt, going to setup my own server once I get better lol, last 3 times have been a cluster fuck to get it working. I got mattermost working the first try but it's a slack replacement not discord.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get that they have different target user base, but honestly, what’s the difference?

[–] femtech@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Roles and permissions. Slack and mattermost is just allowed and disallowed to each channel.

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Steam group chat? It's structured in the same way.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can create channels for people to join with Steam?

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you open the friends window on the bottom it should have a group chats bar with a button to create a server and then it works like discord where you can add additional text and voice channels

Steam has voice channels? 🤯

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Idk if its changed, but you cant edit or delete messaged un steam. That was a huge turn off for me

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Matrix?

I only put ? Because I don't know what you mean of grouping your friends by game.

Like a server/channel where everyone in it is both your friend and a player of that game or a contact group that manage so you can see who is that.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

There really isn't one, that's why Discord is so widely used.