Technology

Because it's not actually about the kids, the kids are just the excuse. That's all they ever are.

Yeah, I agree. I hope Discord both fails as a company and as a concept.

Information siloed inside a non-easily searchable interface? No thank you.

Delete.it now

Revolt is now stoat.chat. And I think they might be getting a little slammed with new users.

As someone who made an account a while ago, no issues so far.

Matrix allows you to structure rooms pretty similar to Discord. It's called a "space" that can then have rooms. Also Sub-spaces with more rooms. You can then manage access by inheritance or really granular on a space / room level. E.g. hidden / public rooms and spaces.

A few notes though:

• If you can create a space / room might depend on the Matrix server you are on and what capabilities the server admin gives you.
• There is always the option to completely self-host your Matrix instance - like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. Depends on how tech savvy you are and if self-hosting is worth it to you ( can mean a ton of work).
• I am not claiming Matrix is a full on Discord replacement. Discord has it's advantages, but so does Matrix if autonomy, privacy, security are important to you. Matrix does have also neat features and bot-ability... but it's clearly not as easy as Discord. Good enough for many FOSS projects / communities though.
• IMO one key concept (besides decentralization / federation) that can be hard to grasp for new users is the concept of the recovery key that you get in addition to your username / password. Also does not help that there is "legacy" Element and Element X which add some confusion as they differ a bit in functionality.
• Personally I really like Matrix. Cinny might be an alternative client that might appeal more to you than Element. If you are into self-hosting tuwunel might be worth a look (or matrix synapse if you want to go with the OG server implementation)

I've probably paid around 100€/$ in total (been occasionally using and gifting Nitro since 2019 and regularly for about a year). I'll definitely stop it and using Discord if they follow through with this.

How did you use Discord in place of WhatsApp? I found Discord incredibly slow to start up, buggy as hell and a pain in the ass to even jump to specific chats quickly in the UI and that was before they made it worse with the new UI.

I hate SMS and vastly prefer a real chat platform, in the US it's messenger/insta and in EU and much of Asia it's Whatsapp, line in Japan, kkaotalk in Korea, WeChat/weixin for China, and so on. Discord never crossed over to regular people in my experience for the most part (is the hot girl you met on it?).

as soon as possible. you never know what could happen

Stay strong partner

My community just setup a Matrix instance and we're migrating everyone over. Several already cancelled their subscription.

I actually ran into a colleague in a random room, who is also leaving Discord.

It's pretty nuts, there's a big exodus going on.

Don't even have to go that far. Just stop paying for Nitro. They'll get the picture when their revenue stream dries up.

I sure did fucking sucks and they didn't make it easy. First had to delete all servers first then delete my account. Fuck Discord.

Can't wait til they're blasted and shredded